Lucy Scholes

And there's a push and a pull there at work, which I think is obviously, I don't want to say that's exactly what's going on in Brooklyn's life.

But if you read some of the interviews, she's very happy with the decision that she's made, or she says she's happy that she's made to be alone and work.

Nothing and everything.

I don't think she's an unreliable narrator in the classic sense of the term, but she is unreliable in as much as there are certain confusions in terms of the plot, aren't there?

She deliberately conceals the prior relationship, doesn't she?

She conceals the prior relationship.

She doesn't sort of she also plays.

I don't know.

I mean, I find I find Frances incredibly intriguing, not because I mean, to go back to what we were talking about earlier, that this kind of this push and pull situation between loneliness and solitude and sort of life and action and staying inside and writing that what makes me much more intrigued by her than.

than a kind of perhaps the impression you might have from just reading that blurb is the way that she constantly pushes against these options she has to move out into the wider world you know all those because alex and nick without giving too much information away but they have a spare bedroom in their house that alex talks about her moving into and it's she she pushes back against it she sort of and then little things happen and she knows something important will be eaten

Exactly.

She's very aware of what she will lose if she kind of moves into the light and sort of starts this life.

So she's unreliable in one sense.

But I don't think it's, you know, when you say if you say unreliable narrator, that gives a certain impression.

You're never sure.

And it's such a confusing one.

It's never unpacked.

We're never quite sure of who wanted what, why he behaves the way he does.

Not with you, Frances, not with you.

What does that mean?