#155: Narrators as Main Characters or Side Characters, and Gaining Ground vs The Book of Eve

Joan Barfoot, Constance Beresford-Howe, narrators – welcome to episode 155! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/tea-or-books-155-1.mp3 In the first half, we use a suggestion from listener Rebecca: do we prefer narrators as main characters in a novel or as side characters? The books and authors we mention in this episode: The Return of the Bookseller Diarist by Shaun Bythell Charlotte Bronte’s Life Through Clothes by Eleanor Houghton Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Good Solder by Ford Maddox Ford The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Secret History by Donna Tartt Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann A Lost Lady by Willa Cather My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf The Portrait by Willem Jan Otten Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson…

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