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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I think the only person I felt total sympathy for was, and I expect were meant to, was Jean Taylor, who is clearly, although she isn't of the class of most of them, she was the, I think she was the companion to one of them.
She's the sensible one.
She's wise and she's doubly patronised because she's a working class and she's a woman.
And I just, oh, I actually do feel amidst the laughter really heartbroken for Jean Taylor, who has the most terrible arthritis.
She's in pain most of the time and she's just resigned herself to the fact that she's in hospital and she grits her teeth and she gets on with it.
We've been talking about Memento Mori by Muriel Spark, which is published by Virago.
And before that, we were talking about Edith Wharton's Summer, published by Penguin.
And we began by talking about Espadere Street by Ian Banks, which is published by Abacus.
Now, my copy of Memento Mori is so old that it says on the front, two and six, two shillings and sixpence, that's how old it is.
But what I hadn't realised when I extracted it from the shelf is that it is second hand.
It once belonged to somebody called Bill, whose name I have firmly crossed out.
But why I was surprised by this is I really don't like secondhand books because I hate turning a page and you come across the remnants of somebody's supper, you know, tomato ketchup or something like that on the page.
And I just wondered, I mean, I know people who will, well, I have one friend who will only buy secondhand books because she says it's more exciting.
But do you both like secondhand books?
Am I alone in this fussiness?
Had you any reason to think this, or did you just think, it's old, so it's probably ridden with germs?
I found in this copy of Memento Mori that Bill, whoever he was, has actually, in pencil, thank goodness, but edited, he's deleted a however from the text.
You're going to be so annoyed.
Well, if you've got a view on anything we've been talking about, do join the conversation via our book club on Instagram.
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