Gray Robert Brown

She's become the new Dominic Sandbrook.

Ding, ding, ding.

He's talking about Gilligan.

But yeah, I pulled out a quote from Hugh where he says, everything up to then, he's talking about the accident that leads him as a wheelchair user.

Everything up to then in my life, I suddenly felt had been superficial.

I was waiting now for something real.

But yeah, Hugh is a much more, I mean, he's not particularly likable, I don't think, but he's a much more benign character than Mike.

Both are described as fairy stories.

So, and I talk about this in the Swinging Christie's book.

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Yeah, I remember writing about this in the 1967 chapter, because we're going year by year, and I got to the Endless Night year, and I found, I reread it, and I found this warped fairy tale aspect to it, which Chrissy explicitly calls out in the book, which I hadn't, not noticed, but not paid attention to so much before, is like a fairy tale gone bad, and that is very much...

that could describe this novel.

And indeed, she makes explicit, Mary Westmacott makes explicit reference to it being like a fairy story through the character of Isabel, often in this.

Yeah definitely.

And in terms of the similarities between this and other Christie novels, you made a point about gossip.

When are you not gossiping, Mark?

I'm not a gossip.

You are a gossip.

Do you know who's the worst gossip?