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To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield

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Books, Arts, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Writer and author Jenny Colgan joins John and Andy to discuss R.F. Delderfield's epic of life in an English boarding school between the wars. Craig Brown's 'Ma'am Darling' and 'Priestdaddy' by Patricia Lockwood are the books we've been reading this week. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 7'42 - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 8'30 - Priest Daddy by Patricia Lockwood 13'45 - Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown 21'31 - To Serve Them All My Days by R F Delderfield * 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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