Lisa Allardice @LisaAllardice · Sep 6, 2024, Sep 6, 2024, 10:46 AM How absolutely lovely is this!theguardian.com/commentisfree/… www.theguardian.com My neighbour, 82, would give everything for just a week with her parents. What she longs to tell... I assumed Bianca wanted to regress to the role of little girl. But she has a story to share with them about a life well lived
Lisa Allardice @LisaAllardice · Jul 30, 2024, Jul 30, 2024, 3:50 PM My bit on the Booker longlisttheguardian.com/books/article/… www.theguardian.com This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas
Lisa Allardice @LisaAllardice · May 15, 2024, May 15, 2024, 12:08 PM Ok, so I really loved Alice Munro. Here's my bit. theguardian.com/books/article/… www.theguardian.com ‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian...
Lisa Allardice @LisaAllardice · May 15, 2024, May 15, 2024, 12:07 PM Stop what you are doing and listen to this. Margaret Atwood reads Alice Munro's early short story Dance of the Happy Shades. Two titans! With thanks, as always, to @MargaretAtwood theguardian.com/books/audio/20… www.theguardian.com Margaret Atwood reads Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro – audio In this exclusive recording, The Handmaid’s Tale author reads the eponymous short story from Munro’s first collection in 1968
Lisa Allardice @LisaAllardice · Sep 22, 2023, Sep 22, 2023, 5:24 PM Oh my goodness, this is a beautiful novel. Tiny but devastating! #Bookerprize