Agatha Christie, Ethel Lina White, and sad books – welcome to episode 143!

In the first half, we use Geraldine’s suggestion – do we avoid books that will upset us? In the second half, we compare They Came To Baghdad by Agatha Christie and Fear Stalks The Village by Ethel Lina White.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode:

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts

Return to Cheltenham by Helen Ashton

King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild

The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The Railway Station by E. Nesbit

The Unbearable Bassington by Saki

Their Finest Hour by Lissa Evans

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Diary of a Lone Twin by David Loftus

Let Not The Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens

R.L. Stine

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Other People by Celia Dale

P.G. Wodehouse

The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White

E.F. Benson

Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White

The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm

Ariel by Sylvia Plath