
Kate Atkinson with Richard E. Grant
The Penguin Podcast
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The Queen Is a Strange Continuity
Your third object is the queen but in fact it's a picture of you at the age of two standing next to a television on which the queen is appearing at her coronation. I feel like Viola does in the book yeah that the queen is bookending my life because I don't remember a time before the queen and of course all the generations sort of succeeded me. My daughters have no idea there was atime before the queen no she has been there she'll always be all the way through and nobody should hopefully she'll be there through the end so there's something about that strange continuity.
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