PS Please don't forget about the idea of publishing your wonderful talk on the importance of poetry, either here or in print. It was such a great start to the festival, and I'd love to read and reflect upon it.
What a lovely edition of My Mother's House! I'm the opposite of you ... as a teenager I quite liked Cheri, partly thanks to a TV serialisation with a broodingly handsome actor in the title role, but I couldn't get on with the other books at all. I may have been put off by my friends who were studying La Maison de Claudine for A level French and not enjoying it. I must give them another go and see how they come across to my adult self.
PS Please don't forget about the idea of publishing your wonderful talk on the importance of poetry, either here or in print. It was such a great start to the festival, and I'd love to read and reflect upon it.
I wonder if I should perhaps place the talk here instead of trying to get it published. I’ll see who is receptive to the idea of taking it.
What a lovely edition of My Mother's House! I'm the opposite of you ... as a teenager I quite liked Cheri, partly thanks to a TV serialisation with a broodingly handsome actor in the title role, but I couldn't get on with the other books at all. I may have been put off by my friends who were studying La Maison de Claudine for A level French and not enjoying it. I must give them another go and see how they come across to my adult self.
Yes, the cover is a painting by Pissarro which seems just right (The Vegetable Garden with Trees in Blossom, Spring, Pontoise).