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, find a cozy chair, and, that was quite a cliffhanger, I guess, last time, right? Nevermore to be

friends with Steerforth ever again. I know that many of you are like, good.

We don't want them to be friends with Steerforth anymore,

but what is going to happen? And I got so many great letters this time of people saying, what is going to happen? I can't wait. I want to read ahead. And we're going to talk about all of it. But first, just a couple of reminders. The first is that tea time, our monthly voice chat over in our online community,

The Drawing Room, is coming up on April 30th. That's a Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern. If you'd like to join us, but you're not yet a member of the drawing room, you should scroll into the show notes and click on the link that's there to learn more about the drawing room and hopefully sign up. You have to be a member of the Landed Gentry membership tier in order to participate in that. I hope that you will

join us. I'll keep reminding you as we get closer, but it's April 30th at 8 p.m. Eastern.

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