Una McCormack
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like you, I must have understood about one word in four, but something about the lilt of the sentences meant that I then went, I've read very little fiction as a teenager, but I consistently read Anita Bruckner.
And I think I must have read about the first 10
11 novels before I went off to university and stopped reading at all.
So that's when I first read it.
They were incredible.
They were a glimpse of a life I barely knew existed.
They're like that big box of chocolates that Alex and Nick are consuming, aren't they?
You read one, you read them very quickly.
I can answer that as the sort of ancient reader I am now as the teenager.
I genuinely do think it was a glimpse of a sort of sophistication, a metropolitan life that I didn't know.
But at the same time, you know, that bookish girl in Oakland.
It's responding to the story of lonely bookish girls everywhere, I think.
So I suspect that was it.
And then it had languages.
You're always going to be beguiled by those sentences, aren't they?
So I think that must have been it.