Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Our guests are publisher Alexandra Pringle and Simon Thomas, editor and co-host of the Tea or Books? podcast. They are here to discuss Cassandra at the Wedding, the fourth and final novel by Dorothy Baker, first published in 1962 by Houghton Mifflin in the USA and Victor Gollancz in the UK. What is it about this darkly funny tale of two devoted sisters that continues to appeal to generations of readers? Also in this episode John enjoys Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietila, newly reissued by Sort Of Books, while Andy returns to early 1980s London via Michael Bracewell's new book Souvenir (White Rabbit). Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 15:36 - Souvenir by Michael Bracewell 20:49 -Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson 27:07 - Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker *To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops *For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So the informal chat is normally we ask you where you are.
0:26.8	Alex Andres once the last time was exemplary and it will be the same.
0:30.7	Maybe we can move on to something else instead.
0:33.9	We need to come up some new material.
0:35.7	You need new material.
0:36.9	Yeah, you're right.
0:39.7	Where aren't you calling for, Alex Andres?
0:43.0	You're not in France.
0:44.1	I'm not in Poliniano.
0:46.2	And I'm not in Poliniano.
0:48.0	I'm in Chelsea on the River Tens on my house boat called Veronica.
0:53.2	And people often think that Veronica is Alexandra.
0:56.6	And Alexandra is Veronica.
0:58.0	It's quite confusing.
1:01.6	Veronica, what is the source of the name?
1:05.3	I don't know, you know, boats.
1:06.6	You don't change their names.
1:07.7	It's very unlucky.
1:08.9	It was just called Veronica.
1:11.8	So I like it.
1:12.8	I like Veronica.
1:14.3	I like it.
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