James Meek

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486 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Jun

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They were supportive.

but they just couldn't do the thing that she felt she needed, to wave some magic wand and make her more graceful, more beautiful, more charming.

Yeah, I mean, I... It was something that was just programmed already.

I mean, he is quite horrible towards her.

In his defence, he then swings to remorse.

Too late, of course.

And a snob.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I would like to think of myself as this kind of this master who sees all.

That's how it feels reading it.

I think I reread Middlemarch while I was writing this book.

And in the relationship between, in Dorothea's quite short story,

reflections about why she should marry Mr. Cazorban.

I felt that there was a way of sort of doubling over this kind of very difficult explication of how she feels about things and how...

and how Mr Berman feels about things.

This idea of the magnificent, of the great gesture, of living a more wonderful life or living in a more wonderful landscape.

Yes.

So I think...

The way you describe it, you know, of this kind of the writer having it all in front of them is a nice idea.

But I think the reality, and I'm sure I'm not the only novelist who is like this, is a lot more magpie-like that you are.

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