Joanne Harris
speaker
101 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Joanne Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mary Cat doesn't really want to and hates everybody.
And there's a wonderful dynamic there.
The prose is just crystalline and gorgeous.
And I think the opening lines are possibly the best opening lines in literature.
It begins with Mary Cat speaking.
My name is Mary Catherine Blackwood.
I'm 18 years old and I live with my sister Constance.
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise.
I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death cup mushroom.
Everyone else in my family is dead.
No, she's not.
She has many intrusive thoughts.
She has dark thoughts.
She's fascinating because she's a completely natural, feral kid in a lot of ways.
But she's also a victim of trauma.
Both the sisters are victims of trauma and they live with their poor old uncle Julian, who...
was not quite poisoned, but who is very, very sick and who is obsessed with the day that his family died and keeps repeating that day over and over again and asking questions about it.
So all three of them have these intersecting areas of trauma, which means that they perceive the world in completely different ways.
Oh, he's awful.
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