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

Because there's so much material in it.

And I kept sending you, I think, slightly annoying emails about, oh my God, of course it's about Notre Dame.

And then I thought, no, it was about that.

I wondered if you got the idea from the Smiths.

No.

The Morrissey song about Notre Dame.

Does that ring any bells here?

No.

Room of blanks.

Yeah, I was also very interested in this idea that something that you say

in passing, Mr Berman's kind of fleeting comment about blowing up.

I think he does say, doesn't he, Notre Dame, St Paul's Cathedral, during a walk with Raph.

Possibly slightly fantasises that he's had a little bit of a...

a role in it, I thought.

But I mean, I thought about how, you know, in our lives that does happen.

I mean, actually, I had a very strange experience walking through Bangor once where I got stopped by the police because the police, somebody had reported me as having said I was going to kill my husband.

And they...

I matched the description and they stopped me and my husband and we got questioned.

And I've always held onto that moment as a moment that would be a really good pivot in a book.

And then I was reading your book and I thought that's like, James has done it.

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