James Meek

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

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

And then he loses Ada, Mr. Berman's wife.

And so he looks around and sees the wonderful, magnificent things that are being lost, but he fails to see the wonderful, magnificent things and the wonderful, magnificent people who should come along to replace them.

And he comes up with this idea that it is actually this...

which overlaps with Leila's view of her mother, that the wonderful of the past is just too overshadowing of the present and radical action needs to be taken.

I think the turning point for her is when she comes to think that.

In the beginning, she thinks, I can do something about this.

But then when she's quite young, she comes to feel, no.

She gives up.

There's nothing I can do.

She gives up.

Because she was born that way, and I'm born this way.

And that's cruel, and it's unfair, and there's nothing I can do.

And so the safest and easiest thing for me to do is just to be an active opponent of any kind of adventure or... I mean, I thought that was quite...

Yep.

Also, I mean, I tried to make it clear that by their own lights, they were always very, very kind to her.

She's not abused.

They are in their way extremely supportive.

I tried to present it as it might seem to her point of view that they were perfectly nice to her.

They were kind.

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