Lucy Scholes
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And very quickly after that, I think I read Look at Me.
And that was the one that did the kind of blowing.
I mean, I like Hotel Delac, but Look at Me was the first one I read that I was really kind of blown away by.
And it will always be the one I come back to, I think.
Oh, I think very much.
And I think that's probably one of the things I love so much about Look at Me is because, for me at least, it weighs up very kind of cleverly and in a lot of detail the difference between that kind of life that you have.
I mean, Frances, the heroine of Look at Me, she lives alone with her housekeeper.
Her mother and father have passed away.
She lives in their old flat.
And she is an aspiring writer.
And she's able to write because of this solitude that she has in her life, the way that she looks at people.
She's always observing them.
But she also wants to be living this life outside of that, but she can't have it both ways.
And I think that's what's so wonderful about the book is that she pushes towards trying to be part of other people's lives.
But when she pushes sort of too far into that, the yearning to be by herself comes back into play again.
So I think it's just a very clever book in telling you.
So both sides of the story.
And so that one is not loneliness is very different solitude.