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 I wonder if part of what it is, is that he represents something she wants because she is so frustrated and fed up with being stuck in this village, as indeed one would be.
And there he is.
He is somebody who is free, as far as she can see, who lives an exciting life.
And I think in a way what she loves is not so much him as what he represents.
Exactly.
It seems to me that the fact that it is summer, and Edith Walton describes the landscape so well, is all part and parcel of it.
I mean, there's a...
There's a moment she describes when Charity is sitting on the hillside over the village and she says, you know, she can smell the pine sap and the thyme and the fern.
And she says, and all were merged in a moist earth smell that was like the breath of some huge sun warmed animal.
I think the landscape and the sexual passion both sort of feed off one another, don't they?
Mind you, I think it was quite controversial at the time it was published.
I can imagine.
We've been talking about Summer by Edith Wharton.
And you're listening to A Good Read, where my guests today are Chris Brookmire and Louise Welsh.
Chris Brookmire, Memento Mori.
I think that's brilliant.
That's, yes, one of the old people.
Gene Taylor says that.
I love this book.
It's one of my favourite Muriel Sparks.
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