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month 15. Off Wrens 9th, January 2024. Representative 88.8% APR variable. Terms apply, 18 plus subject to approval. And the Yeah, so last Saturday at the Hot Tin in Fabesian, which is a new arts venue in Kent down the road from me.

They asked me to host an event with the filmmaker Sarah Wood and the novelist Ali Smith. And at this event, which was really, really good, Ali

read from Spring. And so it's appropriate in the, because we're doing Penelope Fitzgerald I can say with

accuracy that Ali Smith read the beginning of spring.

So that's good. That's all I've got. That's all I've got for this episode. I got nothing. I got nothing else.

So Ali read the opening chapter and she said to the audience before she started,

how do you all feel about me reading something with quite a lot of

infective? I'm trying to capture the feeling of what it's like to be alive in

in Britain just before Brexit. That's what I'm trying to get in this chapter,

though of course the audience were up, for instance she. And she did a, I don't know, maybe 10 minute

reading of this torrent of abuse and anxiety and

on the page would have been one thing and will be one thing and we're gonna get to read that in about a month's time.

But the performance that she did of it was just out of this world good.

I've never seen Ali Smith read before and she really finds the internal rhythm of the prose and pushes that forward.

So it was really like a performance piece.

It is interesting.

Some writers, you know, some can read their own work well and others can't't but I've seen her read a couple of times.

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