Louise Welsh
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182 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Louise Welsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it is interestingly tender-hearted, isn't it?
We've been talking about Espadere Street by Ian Banks.
And to my choice of a good read now, which is a novel published in 1917 by Edith Wharton.
And it's really a quite unusual Edith Wharton novel because quite often she writes about New York high society.
And this is very much not that.
The novel is set over one summer in a dreary little one street village somewhere in New England.
And the only pretensions to high society come from a woman called Miss Hatchard.
And the other bit of grandness, I suppose, is a lawyer called Mr Royal, a rather broken down, sleazy lawyer.
Our heroine, 17-year-old Charity Royal, is Mr Royal's adopted ward.
She's a very beautiful, rather proud young woman.
What happens is that somebody turns up in the district, a young man, an architect from New York called Lucius Harney,
And this could develop into a story that you could summarise as innocent young village girl wronged by older, more sophisticated, richer man.
But for me, it's something much more than that, because it's quite a complicated and subtle book.
Charity Royal isn't just an innocent young woman.
She's something different from that.
I hadn't read it until very recently, and I really like it.
Chris Brookmeyer.
I wonder if she does actually fall in love with him.
My feeling was that he quite obviously fancies her.
And I think she loves the fact, as you can see, she realises that this man finds her attractive.
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