Tea or Books? #6: mothers vs fathers in fiction and Dickens on page vs screen

Fictional mothers vs fictional fathers and Dickens on the page vs Dickens on screen in this episode of Tea or Books? – and I think Rachel and I are at our most rambling. What can I say, we had a lot of thoughts and a lot of books to suggest – but we would obviously love to hear your thoughts too. Jump in the comments if you have strong feelings on either of the topics we discuss – or if you have ideas for future discussions.

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The books we mention in the podcast (and there are a lot this time!) are:

The Middle Window by Elizabeth Goudge
The Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon
The Lake District Murders by John Bude
Quick Curtain by Alan Melville
Death of Anton by Alan Melville
The Majestic Mystery by Denis Mackail
When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Runaways by Elizabeth Goudge
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Harry Potter series
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Famous Five series
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
M for Mother by Marjorie Riddell
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr
Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Virginia Woolf by Winifred Holtby
The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson