She would love to unlock children from ‘a world which is all about fame and money and status and pointless, passive things’. She would like to give them other values ‘without overloading them with Christian mythology’.
I think this is an author I’d like to read – anyone suggest where to start? Is it the obvious, the first novel?
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3 responses to “The Observer | Magazine | 'If I was a dog, I'd be a terrier. I was brought up in quite a tough culture – I'm used to speaking out”
I read ‘Oranges’ a long time ago, not long after it first came out, and found it too bitter and angry, not surprisingly, I guess. I think I started ‘sexing the cherry’ but I don’t think I got far with it. Personally I wouldn’t want to trust her as a value-giver, and not only because of my own attachment to ‘Christian mythology’. But I do think her latest book does sound interesting; time as a commodity is a constant theme I have. So if you start with that one, I’ll borrow it when you’ve read it… 😉
Didn’t say I was going to give any of it to the kids 😉 Just liked the sound of her coming through the interview – have always stayed away from her books as being too sensationalised, so was thinking of a second look.
I liked ‘Boating for Beginners’ the most, it’s very funny. I think she stopped writing funny books after that. Probably says more about me than the quality of her writing though 🙂