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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I agree with Virginia Woolf, mind has no sex.
And also, in a weird way, in this book, Jack is sort of the protagonist, although he doesn't act much in the book.
The plot sort of is around him.
So I did think of it as a sort of three-handed thing rather than a two-handed thing.
Yeah, no, I'm trying to think.
No, we didn't talk much about the gender side of it.
I had an internal chronology for the book that I didn't actually put in the book because it gets so annoying because people then say, I think you're fine.
2019.
So hang on.
She is 53.
Hang on.
She's 57.
Okay.
They did in that opposition.
I mean, Phoebe, I've always been interested, because I always think life's slightly simpler if you're friendly and polite.
But I noticed that not everyone thinks that.
And I've always been really interested in people who are deliberately slightly difficult, slightly spiky.
There's a French word for it.
You might think it's a no coincidence.
There's a French word for it, pénible, which means someone who's difficult on purpose, who makes every interaction slightly more work than it needs to be.
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