Kate Evans
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25,858 appearances
189 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 5d ago
Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Giuseppe is a truffle hunting dog, but there are no truffles to be had in that village.
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And you can find all of that in Daniel Mason's Country People.
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And that was her debut novel.
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Well, I love the collection of books that you have both recommended.
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And for anybody who's scrambling for a piece of paper to write them down, never fear, we do list them all on the bookshelf page or in the show notes if you're listening to us on a podcast or an ABC listen.
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It's all there, we promise.
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Yes.
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Now, she's best known as a poet, I think, as well as a literary scholar, although she has written some short fiction.
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Her poetry collection from 2021, Trigger Warning.
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was really quite something.
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But now she's written her first novel and it's called The End of Romance.
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Okay.
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So The End of Romance, where are we and when?
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Well, we're not entirely sure as the story opens because we're in a house.
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There's a child in bed calling out to his mother and
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And so inside this apparently ordinary domestic scene, she then creates an entire world that shows you that the house isn't quite a house as we might expect it to be.
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There's no power.
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There's no water coming out of the taps.
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There is something called fog collectors outside.
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And then we realise that this house is in a suburb of other abandoned houses.
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