Favourite Books?
D H Lawrence’s Odour of Chrysanthemums by Cath Corri!
The small locomotive engine, Number 4, came clanking, stumbling down from Selston with seven full waggons. It appeared round the corner with loud threats of speed, but the colt that it startled from among the gorse, which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon, outdistanced it at a canter. A woman, walking up the railway [...]
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Cath And Jen Corri talking about Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Cath Corri What novel/novelist has inspired or touched your life most and why? For me it is Toni Morrison’s BELOVED ………… unique in its style and works with history, language and motherhood in a fantastical but completely new way. Opened up Afro-American women’s writing to me and deconstructs the female literary canon. In fact, this [...]
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Cath Corri: Beloved by Toni Morrison
NOvel is about more than a haunting. Beloved enters the narrative as a fully grown woman , but in fact is a pre-mature child (murdered by her mother to be saved from slavery). She is larger than life, disruptive and chaotic – a symbol of history being re-written (hence sentences structures being ‘unreadable’). Beloved has [...]
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Kate Atkinson and Jackson Brodie.
Sometimes days become more fluid than chocolate milkshake! The other week I had the Emily Dickinson phrase, ‘started early, took my dog’ in my head in connection with the latest Kate Atkinson I had not read. So I abandoned my normal shopping habits, went to Tesco and came home with Jackson Brodie’s best outing I [...]
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Sarah Waters: The Night Watch
Sarah Waters’ novel The Nightwatch is dramatised tonight. I must confess I started the novel when it was first published and then abandoned the experience, disappointed by the careful restraint and austerity of setting and character. Waters was brave enough to challenge herself to explore this new historical setting after the highly successful Victorian settings [...]
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