Gray Robert Brown

George Cross.

Oh, that's so charming.

Oh, how lovely.

You mentioned it briefly before, but this marks a sea change in the Westman cults as well, maybe not just in tone, but in the fact that she moves publisher.

So this is the first book published by Heinemann, which is now part of Penguin Random House actually, whereas the previous books have been published by Collins, which is now HarperCollins.

Yeah, if only to keep that person happy.

Absolutely.

That's just talent management, right?

Yeah, yeah, as we said.

Oh, very sweet.

Very good.

And so in terms of the structure of the actual prose, so there are no books unlike the first two.

But like absent in the screen, we talked about this last time.

It's interesting.

She doesn't feel the need to separate the prose into parts.

Well, maybe.

I was thinking it's more in the...

dickens tradition in the in the 19th century tradition in the more sort of grand old novel tradition and and she's sort of catching up with the times a bit and it is a bit more stream of consciousness and yeah maybe i mean so we have 26 chapters no parts like i say but the prelude which is a framing device around the novel which she did she has done in every west is it in absent in the spring

I was trying to think if it was in Giants.

It is in Giants bread because it starts at the concert with Sebastian Levin going, oh, what a wonderful.