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Father and Son by Edmund Gosse

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent, joins John and Andy to discuss Edmund Gosse's account of growing up the son of a widowed Victorian fundementalist preacher. The trio also talk about Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams, and Spanish Crossings, the second novel by John Simmons. Timings (may differ due to variable advert length) 3'43 - Attrib. & Other Stories - Eley Williams 11'46 Spanish Crossing John Simmons 18'57 - Father and Son by Edmund Gosse. * 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 and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.6

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0:31.2

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0:39.7

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0:51.0

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1:17.2

against I'm really not against I think it's great that people are making their

1:20.7

own booze and they're doing all sorts of weird and fabulous things.

1:24.8

But the first thing that slightly made me nervous was they said they'd forage a lot of the

1:28.3

ingredients for their menu locally, which seems to me to be a bit of a category error if you're in short of, you know, old bus tickets and cigarette

1:38.9

box.

1:39.9

You know, I'm a ground elder I suppose.

1:44.0

Then they said, would you like a glass of homemade wines?

1:48.0

And I looked at the menu and one of them had it was burnt beetroot and away, W- W H E why I mean that's not even you know I mean that

1:58.2

sort of isn't it that's student fridge level of desperation, isn't it?

2:02.7

What have we got?

2:04.5

Well, we've got some off milk and a beetroot.

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