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Podcast: A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Episode: Mrs Parsons
Description: ‘The fate of the writer is to dwell in that realm of shadows and apparitions and half-seen thoughts…’
This week, we join Sally sketching a scene for her new novel, Mrs Parnell, in which the stern housekeeper Mrs Parsons encounters a figure on the stairs. But who is this figure? An intruder? A suitor? Or even, perhaps, a reimagining of Gabriel Conroy, from Joyce’s short story ‘The Dead’ (1914)? Listen for an immersion in Sally’s creative process, developing an image and its home in a narrative.
Gabriel was previously the topic of Sally’s conversation wit...