Susie Riddell
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Susie Riddell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're all trying to...
they're all trying to escape in some way from their existence and they've each got their own thing.
And Rita's, I think, is her imagination in the cinema.
And then Bill has these plans for this aircraft hangar that he's going to turn into a farm, you know, farming on a big scale, although he's no idea what he's doing.
Eric has his other woman.
And then Irene is the one who doesn't really have anything.
But I feel by the end of the novel, I felt she was the one who actually I was least worried about.
which I wouldn't have said at the start.
Yes, the homophobia, I mean, a lot of the things are obviously still around, but the prevalence of homophobia, the racism, the sexism that existed, the lack of communication...
The way the elderly was sort of just in their homes and the only person that might visit them is this doctor.
The fact that doctors are doing home visits.
You can speak to him on the phone.
Yeah, I really enjoyed those details, the intricacies of creating this picture of the 60s.
But I felt that I noticed that it won that prize.
I thought, well, actually, it's also...
for the effects of the Second World War, because that is so strong.
Very moving moments like Gabi, who's probably the most, who's got the greatest humanity in the book, I think, who's a Jewish doctor who'd lived through the Holocaust.
And he has this table in his flat with,
I think it's ten chairs and Eric goes why has he got all these chairs and I just found that really moving because this man on his own and it just made me think where's that table come from and there's nobody there with him where are all his family and it was never very strongly put this idea of the effect of the Holocaust because there's lots of Jewish characters in it but it's there it's kind of the essence of it and it just runs through the whole book
I found it quite unpredictable.
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