Kate Evans
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25,858 appearances
189 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 6d ago
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They're just there sort of hidden.
And you have to work out how to excavate them.
And he says to her, you have to find your Madeleine.
You have to, you know, like Proust, you have to find those moments.
Just explain that to people who haven't read it.
So there's a reference that is only very short.
It's only four or five pages, this prologue, but it sort of helps set up the whole rest of the book as being filtered through this character's experience.
Because even though you say, Michael, that you can read it as a memoir, it's not a first-person novel.
We actually meet all of these different characters in a sort of close third person.
So as we then go back into her history, how do we then meet Mia from another perspective?
We keep being reminded of what version of Morocco we're entering into.
These are middle-class Moroccans.
Their father, Mehdi, who we also meet very early on in 1980, is the first time we sort of enter into his life story.
He's just taken over a bank, a sort of financial institution in Casablanca, and he's really determined to make it
a success, to bring in computers, to make sure there's no corruption.
And so that sort of wars against a lot of the external images of Morocco, where Mia herself says people want a story of tragedy and poverty and, you know, overcoming the slums.
And that's not her experience.
You know, her mother is a gynecologist.
Her father is a financier.
They're also living in a world of fear and politics.
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