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Well, different people, yeah, isn't it?

I think Absinthe in the Spring is much better.

Oh, I do too.

But not that that's by the by.

And I love that there's someone with Sophie's platform

Oh, Hugh gets hit by a car.

Yeah, but at the beginning, Vernon has a decency to do it towards the end.

All right, okay.

But, I mean, there is an argument to say, not just because someone of Sophie Hanna's stature is championing it in this day and age, but it is, you know, kind of a significant entry in the canon.

The title of it is featured on that memorial statue near Seven Dars, isn't it, in London?

So maybe we are already moving into late Westmacott if we're going to carry on that Gill metaphor.

Yeah, yeah, in that way, yeah.

surprised me yeah I saw that you'd you'd found that because it just feels intensely rooted in that election in a way that and she's responding to that moment in a way that you know like I don't know a few years ago it's like this is the first Brexit novel this is the first Covid novel like it felt like it's it felt so of that political moment yeah I guess that's a universality to this idea of a disruptive quite

Upheaval is upheaval, right?

But also maybe, I mean, we're inferring that the whole thing was there from 1929.

Maybe it was the romance plot.

Maybe it was the Isabella, Hugh and John Gabriel, the character like John Gabriel and the love triangle.

You know, maybe a post-General Strike kind of politician type figure in John Gabriel.

And then because 20 years have passed or almost, it's moved on.

But it's fascinating to think about.