Kate Evans
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26,072 appearances
190 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 6d ago
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We've got this girl who is so clever.
She sort of vibrates with interest and passion and discomfort because she's in grief.
She's lost her father.
And there's a version of that at the beginning of this novel with these two characters walking on a beach.
And I think one of the things that she does, so Louisa and Cirque, Cirque is the father, is that our sense of these characters keep on being unended.
But having read the short story, then opening this book, which is, what, 450 pages long?
Oh, longer, yeah.
Oh, longer.
We both had to read it electronically, so I didn't realise quite how long it was going to be as I kept reading it.
Can you talk about that set-up and the impact that it had on you, BJ?
But the structure of this novel is so interesting because although we're not going to talk about
one huge part of the book there are other ways in which she wrong foots us with what we think we know about even this man and this girl holding hands walking along the beach there's a story quite early on that she was interested in in miniatures in dolls houses and there was a a shop that she used to go and look longingly at these small things and they were they were too expensive basically and
And so the father decides to make her a dollhouse.
And so we have this particular image of this man who's carefully made
a doll's house who's put all this sort of care and attention into her.
And then the more we know about this family and this man, our sense of this sort of kindly father making little furniture is so not who he is.
He is this sort of angry, wry academic who was born in Japan, who has a number of different languages,
who was a Korean-Japanese man, has this extremely fractious relationship with his wife.
And we keep meeting characters, finding out more about them, and everybody has...
silences and stories and things about their family and things about their past that we know as readers and nobody else knows, do they, BJ?
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