Joanne Harris
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101 appearances
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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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dissects the consequences in this wonderful kind of way, in this pure, beautiful language.
And yes, the mother rises above everything in the book.
Sometimes there are whole chapters where she's not mentioned, but her presence is always there.
There is this long shadow of her.
And Arundhati Roy describes her as my shelter and my storm.
She is constantly trying to compensate for the failings of her mother and to try and keep her affection for her intact, which is why she runs away.
She says something like, I ran away not because I didn't love her, but because I wanted to continue loving her, which I understand perfectly.
It must be very difficult to be the child of somebody so...
So glorious in one way, but also so incapable of nurturing a child.
It's as if she's almost been genetically programmed for revolt.
She is there.
She has learnt from an early age that this is the direction she's going to take.
Yes, she describes herself as heart smashed, which I think is... It's a really interesting choice of words, but it also crystallises, I think, what it is that she feels.
She has processed all this complicated childhood trauma and it has ended up as grief and understanding.
The book seems cathartic to me.
It takes everything and just makes it into a kind of diamond, ultimately crushes it.
into something beautiful and very sad.
I think they can be I'm not a great fan of categorisation I think it can sometimes it can reduce something it's a sort of reductive process because when you look at something like we've always lived in the castle which is
properly presented as a Gothic novel.
And when you look at its similarity with something like John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure, which isn't presented as a Gothic novel, but which still has the same ingredients, the unreliable narrator, the sense of otherness, that the neurodivergence in there, I think that there's something there that...
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