Georgina Morley
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Podcast Appearances
They were homeless for quite a long time.
They were church mice poor.
And it was all in her head.
And it was waiting to come out.
You know, this is a woman who got a congratulatory first at Oxford.
And, you know, had to teach.
The blonde bomber.
And she also taught Clara Alexander, the agent and former publisher.
Because Clara, when I was an infant at Penguin, we discovered that we'd both been taught by Mrs Fitzgerald.
And we took her out for lunch.
Mrs Fitzgerald.
I can't call her.
I'm 60 now and I cannot call her.
You can still win the Booker Prize, George.
She's Mrs Fitzgerald.
And we took her out for lunch to try to persuade her to come to Penguin.
Because she didn't have an agent, famously.