Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups.

I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

Each episode I'll read a few chapters from the book,

pausing from time to time to give brief explanations, so it's easier to follow along.

It's like an audiobook with built-in notes.

So brew a pot of tea and maybe a piece

of soda bread or a scone or even like a little cookie or something, that's just bliss to me.

That's just heaven. And I feel like what a wonderful thing that I get to do that. What a wonderful

thing that I get to read books and then talk to you about them.

It's really just delightful. So thank you for being here. I hope that you enjoyed some soda

bread or maybe just are enjoying hearing about my soda bread or whatever it is. I hope that you

have some cozy place, some lovely drink of choice in your life, whether you're doing that right now or whether

you have other times that you like to do that. But a tea and a book, I don't know. I just think it's

the stuff that life is made out of. So I'm here for it. I hope you are too. I'm really excited to

keep reading this book with you. Just a very quick reminder that tea time is coming up this

coming Tuesday, which is the 24th of March. It's at 8 p.m. Eastern over in our online community, which is called

The Drawing Room, because it's the drawing room of our lovely Victorian manner, where we withdraw after

the show to keep talking about this book and about life in general.

It's a really fun time. It's about an hour. We chat. It's like a group phone call. I can hear you.

You can hear me or you can just listen. We'll talk about this book, David Copperfield,

and where we are so far, but we can also talk about whatever you want. I answer questions. You can ask me

anything. And it's just a lovely, wonderful time. So I hope

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