Kate Evans
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26,301 appearances
191 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 4d ago
Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And now she's written her first novel and it's called The Thornbacks.
BJ, before we get to this new novel, you've read her short stories too.
I have a feeling some of those words may just come up in this one.
Now, look, it begins on a Friday night, date night, but it begins with a sort of slightly odd collective voice.
We always liked Fridays best because Friday night was date night.
I helped you with your hair and you straightened my lipstick, running your thumbnail around my bottom lip to get a clean, sharp line.
You said, ready?
And I said, ready.
So it quickly becomes clear this plural voice is two of us and these two are choosing men via dating apps.
So, BJ, who are these women?
And there might just be a third in the wings too.
Well, meet Gertie and Tabitha.
Angela Carter.
And the details of all that airbrushing of bruises and the things that they have to do as morticians was so visceral.
I have to confess, I was squirming a bit and it was such a sort of jolt style-wise from what I've been reading with Deryn Negreefa and with Deborah Levy, a book that I'll be talking to you about as well.
I actually found it quite hard to keep reading this book.
And it might have just been the moment, like that it was just, it jarred me too much.
So convince me why I need to cope with my wriggling in my chair.
I mean, you've described it in terms of its sort of grotesquerie and as, I mean, it sounds sort of subversive and like it's playing deliberately with expectations of things like what a dating novel might be.
Is it also a sort of a mystery?
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