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Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 April 2025 source ↗
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Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, which was one of the set texts for my English literature A-level. I have almost finished it.
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Fizzy like lemonade.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
An umbilical cord.
My husband snoring.
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