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	Podcast:		Books and Authors
	Episode:		A Good Read: Chantal Joffe and Séamas O'Reilly
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:27:51
	Publish Date:		2023-11-28 16:30:00
	Description:		The artist Chantal Joffe picks I Capture The Castle, the English classic by Dodie Smith. Set in 1930s rural England, it relates the adventures of an eccentric family over the course of about a year. It's a book Chantal has come back to again and again, ever since she was a teenager. Séamas O'Reilly champions the Irish novel, A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy, which he argues deserves to be more widely known. And Harriett Gilbert recommends a graphic memoir by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, called The Secret to Superhuman Strength. Chantal Joffe is an artist known for her often larger-than-life-sized paintings, of women and children in particular, which have been shown in solo exhibitions around the world. Séamas O'Reilly is a columnist for the Observer whose memoir is Did Ye Hear Mammy Die. Comment on instagram: @agoodreadbbc Produced by Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio
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