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The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week John and Andy are joined by novelist and literary journalist Sarra Manning (author of The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp) to discuss Elaine Dundy's sparkling debut The Dud Avocado and its follow-up The Old Man and Me. Other books under discussion are Anna Burns's Man Booker-shortlisted Milkman and Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, published 150 years ago and still startlingly relevant. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 10'41 - Daniel Deronda by George Elliot 19'25 - Milkman by Anna Burns 24'11 - The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy *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

The There's so much to go in the skip, bits of furniture, I just stuff, loads of stuff.

0:22.0

Have you had a kind of Maricondo moment?

0:24.6

Does it mean me joy?

0:25.4

I brought that book home and I had it thrown at me by Rachel.

0:29.2

John and Rachel are moving everyone, they're moving house.

0:31.8

And how long have you lived in that place?

0:33.6

Eight years.

0:34.6

So, wrong enough to accumulate crack.

0:37.2

And the other thing is that garage is full of two other people

0:39.9

who said, oh, you've got loads of space.

0:41.3

Can we put our stuff in your garage?

0:43.2

And of course you say, yeah, no problem, no, fine, loads of space.

0:46.9

One of them has moved, left the village, and they said, well, can you not just sort of

0:49.4

of sort it out?

0:50.8

Well, the answer is, yes, but it's probably going to cost me money to do that.

0:54.4

Sorrow you're in a constant battle with the books arriving. I see tweet photographs

1:01.2

of like two bags that have arrived every day.

1:05.0

It's just, I know.

1:07.0

I just worried the joys are just going to go away.

1:10.0

I live in a badly converted flat and just, know the creaking every now and again is because I sort of

1:17.4

review books and sometimes you get like three copies of one book you get an early proof you get the

1:23.4

proof and then you get the finished copy there must be a more

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