
Kate Atkinson with Richard E. Grant
The Penguin Podcast
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How to Get Out of a Fire in an Emergency
I can't believe how many people actually did get out I mean a small percentage but I can't imagine how they managed to escape the book struck me that it's so much a meditation about age and die. My father died at 70 and he'd been ill for a long time with all sorts of different things so I never really saw him age I just saw him being ill But my mother died a couple years ago nearly 90 and her last decade was was rubbish you know it was awful it was it was how not to age and she was in a nursing home at the endIt was very very like you know Teddy's days in the nursing home very similar nursing home and I think so
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