Nicky Birch
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487 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Nicky Birch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you can imagine, I'm guessing the writer may have had some connection with that too.
But it's right at the beginning, it says that, you know, Janet, she's 16, she's murdered, and this is the story of her short life up until the point of her death.
And interesting that Maggie O'Farrell likes it because she uses that device in two of her books.
Oh, wow.
That main character is dead, and we're told that at the beginning.
I thought that was quite interesting.
But one of the things about Janet's life that is really notable is that nobody really understands her.
She doesn't know how to interact with people, and she has these kind of unasked-for sexual advances or assaults, which she finds quite disturbing, doesn't she?
Right up until kind of throughout her life, and nothing is done about them.
And actually, when she herself makes her own advance...
That's when everything sort of unravels.
It's kind of like, you know, people are allowed to come on to her and nobody seems to, or she doesn't know how to handle it, but it's not allowed the other way.
And it's, her family are basically horrified by her.
And, because she just doesn't understand how to act in society.
And actually the way I read it was, she's probably autistic.
Because she doesn't understand social conventions and,
She's obsessed by things, animals, words.
And ends up in these awful situations like these kind of, as I said, these sort of sexual advances.
So it's really interesting.
That's how I read it.
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