Sally Carson, Katherine Dunning, and the weather – welcome to episode 141!

In the first half, Rachel and I discuss significant weather scenes in novels, and whether knowing about the weather in novels makes a difference to us. In the second half, we compare two very different novels from 1934, both recently republished: Crooked Cross by Sally Carson (reissued by Persephone) and The Spring Begins by Katherine Dunning (reissued by the British Library).

Here is the LitHub article about rain in novels: lithub.com/the-best-rain-in-literature

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

All The Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner

William Maxwell

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

August Blue by Deborah Levy

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

Braided Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Position of Spoons by Deborah Levy

Autocorrect by Etgar Keret

Suddenly, A Knock On The Door by Etgar Keret

The Five Good Years by Etgar Keret

Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster

Emma by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick

Heatwave by Penelope Lively

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Landscape in Sunlight by Elizabeth Fair

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf

The Years by Virginia Woolf

Funny Weather by Olivia Laing

The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

The Five Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens

Other People by Celia Dale