Thursday, 4 September 2014

I met Sarah Waters and said "I love a spinster aunt"

That's all I have to say on that topic, really.

7 comments:

  1. Sounds like a game of Consequences. And she said?

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  2. Oh come now! You can't tease us like that. Details, please......

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  3. It is a sentence that rests in all of us, patiently waiting for an opportunity to burst forth. Sadly, for many of us and our sentences, this opportunity never arrives.

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  4. Hilarious. :) I sadly just found out that the night Sarah Waters is here in Seattle, I have to attend a parents' night at Z's school. I guess I will just have to wait for her to write her next book (which hopefully won't take years and years again!).

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  5. That's simply splendid. Well done.

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  6. Ok, I shall give details - if anybody is still waiting!
    We had a nice little chat during the book signing - the book is set in the 1920s and she mentioned Sylvia Townsend Warner, so I brought up my thesis, and mentioned that it was about spinsters in part. Sarah Waters recommended Elizabeth von Arnim's Vera, and said there was a spinster aunt in it - cue me saying "I love a spinster aunt!"

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