John, Andy and Mathew Clayton discuss Nancy Mitford's novel The Blessing with Nancy's biographer Laura Thompson. Plus, what it feels like to finish Finnegans Wake, 'bloke's books', and the rudest word in the Gloucestershire dialect.
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Books Mentioned:

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Laura Thompson - Life in a Cold Climate, Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
Agatha Christie - Third Girl, Endless Night
Roberto Saviano - Zero Zero Zero
Nancy Mitford - The Blessing, Love in a Cold Climate, Wigs on the Green, The Pursuit of Love, Don’t Tell Alfred, Frederick the Great, The Sun King
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh - Edited by Charlotte Mosely

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