Lily King

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769 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

Lily King’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It is so beautifully structurally.

It's almost like a small, there's mysteries tucked in that you don't even know that you're getting.

And again, the sentences, sentence by sentence, just glorious.

I was thinking about The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville.

I read that many years ago and I still, again, just remember the feeling of how much I loved that book.

It's about, I mean, I'm sure you all know, it's about a man who comes to a small town.

You're going to have to help me about what the town is called.

Gee, really?

It begins with a K and it's very long.

And it is a fictional town.

That makes it harder for us to remember.

It sounds very authentically Australian.

Putting us on the spot.

And he's come to demolish a bridge.

And this other, the other protagonist has come to establish, she's a kind of a curator and a very good crafter and quilter.

And she's come to establish a museum of Aboriginal arts and crafts.

And it's a love story.

but they're very, very unlikely lovers.

I mean, it's kind of the last thing they came to do in their lives is fall in love.

And it's very, very funny.

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