Lara Pawson

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266 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Aug

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

So really, and then there's a moment with when he's teaching Middlemarch.

So this is another thing I found myself thinking, feeling that I was being quite clever, but I feel like you're going to,

You're going to make me clear that I wasn't.

But was the book inspired by Middlemarch?

Are you a big reader of Middlemarch?

Because it felt like there was this thread between Dorothea and her own struggle to sort of live a bigger life.

And was that an inspiration for the character of Raph?

I kept thinking Freud, George Eliot, you've brought all this stuff together.

Is this how James constructs his books?

He's kind of...

There would be nothing trivial.

Everyday things with us would mean the greatest things.

No, that's kind of what I imagine.

But I just think you've done it so skillfully.

Yeah, it's great.

It's great.

I mean, yeah, yeah, it's great.

Yeah, I mean, I think that that's what, I mean, what always makes me nervous about doing conversations like this is that we're supposed to have an interesting conversation about a book that is a big, complex book.

And it's quite hard to know.

I was thinking, where on earth do I start with this?

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