Yes! And the moment in the programme when she quite calmly and faux-rationally explained to her 4 year old (?) daughter that her old daddy had been replaced and she was going to have a new daddy now, and wasn't that lovely! :S Just gruesome.
Yes - I didn't realise before this, how escapist her books had been for _her_ which is quite interesting...
And definite agreement also on the unease felt reading her books as a child - I think one has a sense, even as a child, that though the targets for authorial disdain and punishment in the books are ostensibly "other" and "deserving of punishment" - yet there is a real sense that at any moment that could be you-the-reader, if you step in the wrong place... Very unnerving.
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Date: 2011-05-24 02:05 pm (UTC)Yes - I didn't realise before this, how escapist her books had been for _her_ which is quite interesting...
And definite agreement also on the unease felt reading her books as a child - I think one has a sense, even as a child, that though the targets for authorial disdain and punishment in the books are ostensibly "other" and "deserving of punishment" - yet there is a real sense that at any moment that could be you-the-reader, if you step in the wrong place... Very unnerving.