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Lucy Scholes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
151 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

And very quickly after that, I think I read Look at Me.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

And that was the one that did the kind of blowing.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

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.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

And it will always be the one I come back to, I think.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

Yeah, well, thank you.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

Oh, I think very much.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

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.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

I mean, Frances, the heroine of Look at Me, she lives alone with her housekeeper.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

Her mother and father have passed away.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

She lives in their old flat.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

And she is an aspiring writer.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

And she's able to write because of this solitude that she has in her life, the way that she looks at people.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

She's always observing them.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

She's writing.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

But she also wants to be living this life outside of that, but she can't have it both ways.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

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.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

But when she pushes sort of too far into that, the yearning to be by herself comes back into play again.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

So I think it's just a very clever book in telling you.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

So both sides of the story.

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

And so that one is not loneliness is very different solitude.