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

He's kind of taken that little bit of conversation.

Yes, as Serena the lawyer says, a single remark might be enough.

Yeah.

And I feel like there's lots of moments in this book where what people say really, really matters.

I mean, it's just, that's a kind of obvious thing to say, but I think with a...

there's something about the the way that people speak it becomes so important these kind of there's moments in the book where yes the the lawyer serena when she's recalling her that she could have been a footballer and she was very good at football and then she goes she she her father does a speech

at, was it when she got a place to opt for or something?

There's just so many of these little moments where the words that people come out with are just, I felt myself kind of on edge.

I felt myself so tense with these words.

unbearable family relations that so many of the characters have in the books.

I also, I was, I mean, I'm very mindful of the time.

I can't believe how fast the time's going, but I was very interested in...

I was a bit surprised that I was asked to have this conversation with you.

And I was thinking, was it something to do with violence in Spent Light and the fact I'm slightly obsessed with violence?

Well, there was something that occurred to me that actually I had quoted in my book that I thought really resonated with your book,

No, no, no, you didn't quote it.

No, I'd be flattered.

Still, all you like.

James Meeker's stolen my work.

What a great compliment.

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