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Episode 64 Sarah Bailey’s techno-thriller Click + the amazing and tragic life of Charmian Clift

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A serial  killer is on the loose in Melbourne in Sarah Bailey’s ‘Click’. Three women, a journalist, a cop and a politician are on the case.  The approaching pandemic is a dark hovering presence in this gripping story which also shows how modern technology has become a force for good and for evil.

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Literary academic Kylie Cardell lays takes us through the life and achievements of Charmian Clift, writer and trailblazer of the 1950s and 1960s. She lived in the shadow of her famous husband, writer George Johnston, and died too early from suicide. Her writings, including her unfinished memoir “The End of the Morning”, are a remarkable treasury of observations  about life for women in the mid 20th century. 

 

Guests:

Sarah Bailey, author

Kylie Cardell, Associate Professor of Literature, Flinders University

Other books that get a mention:

Annie mentions “Frogsong” by Melissa Manning and the 2010 Booker winner “The Finkler Question” by HowardJacobson

Sarah recommends the fantasy trilogy “His Dark Materials” by  Philip Pullman


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