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Can't stop listening, and the the way this one ended... I'm on a binge listen since yesterday.

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Aug 10Liked by Eleanor Anstruther

Ooh where is she?!

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Indeed, reply to Julie: Where is Bridget?

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Aug 5Liked by Eleanor Anstruther

Man, your sentences often feel like traveling through multiple dimensions, into the most hidden interiors of a character, and then expanding outward into an omniscient narrator, but then also into a space where both exist at the same time. Love this kind of literary voyeurism!

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Aug 13Liked by Eleanor Anstruther

Tell me about it.

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Aug 5Liked by Eleanor Anstruther

Your cast of characters brings this story to life in such an engaging way. The joy and purpose of the women at the protest is well contrasted with Janet’s life of expectations and caretaking. Annabel’s entrance at the end presents an expert cliffhanger — where is Bridget?!

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🙌🏻

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Reading these last two chapters together, I love the contrast between Annabel and Janet, one true to herself, the other conventional. And now we know that both pay a price for their choices. You’ve made Greenham a place of freedom for all women, when society punishes both these women so.

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Thank you. It became clear, in my research, that every type of woman was there.

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Enjoying the instalments, Eleanor. Puzzled as to why it doesn’t show in emails when new chapters come out. I look for it here anyway, but wonder if there’s a delivery glitch?

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"It had been sweet once upon a time when he’d strung his arm around her and said he’d keep her safe, she’d never felt unsafe, but there it was, if it pleased him, she’d been happy to go along with it, but had she known – it was here that Janet’s thoughts would wash away into a blur of never mind, and that’s how it is, and she’d made her bed so she’d better lie in it." Great to get a glimpse into Janet's character. The elision in her thoughts feels so powerful.

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Aug 13Liked by Eleanor Anstruther

I just shared that, too.

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That very passage struck me, too!

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Janet's resignation and Ray's need for a political project of paranoia combined with a marriage now sexless: Bridget can't know yet what life she wants but she knows what life she doesn't want.

Eleanor, I appreciate the contrast between the claustrophobia of the home and the wildness of the protest.

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