John Lanchester
speaker
548 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
John Lanchester’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Get the boring bit out of the way at the beginning.
So it's a novel with two narrators, Kate, who's a woman in her late 50s, and Phoebe, who's a young screenwriter in her 30s.
And Kate, who's narrating this first bit, would be what Bridget Jones calls a smug married.
And it's her and her husband Jack out for a dinner party with some friends.
Michael did the introductions.
The husband Al worked in TV.
The wife Katrina did a job share at the Guardian.
There was no way on earth their salaries could have let them afford an address in this part of town, so there must be private money somewhere in the background.
This was something Jack would complain about when he was in his mode of pretending to be a Marxist, but had a convenient tendency to forget when he was dealing with clients.
Tanya came through from the kitchen with another tray of small things on sticks, olives, chunks of pineapple.
Our eyes met.
I'm going through a 70s thing, she said.
Prawn cocktail, coronation chicken, steak Diane, Black Forest Gato, onion soup, quiche Lorraine, veal escalopes.
Done properly, they're all delicious.
Where's all that kind of food gone?
You'll get him started, I said.
But it was too late.
Jack had reached for a vol-au-vent, swallowed it whole in one bite, rinsed it down with a glass of champagne, and seized centre stage, all in one action.
I couldn't agree more, he said.
It's like this.
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