Episode 76 - Rosa Rankin-Gee: Part 2

Part two of Rosa Rankin-Gee's chat with This Writing Life begins with a discussion of the coming-of-age-story (in her case, debut novel The Last Kings of Sark). From there it was a sprightly leap across echoes of Dickens and metaphorical islands to:

• stages in and of life
• 'I am fascinated with the idea of bluffing and posturing...'
• when does a doctor - or a novelist - become a doctor - or a novelist?
• how does Rosa write (in Paris)? 
• writing for money (the day job in copy-writing) v writing for art (the other day job)
• $ million idea: canned applause and booing for writers at work
  
• living in France, speaking in French and jokes about Joseph Conrad
• vegetarian restaurants, Hemingway, racist street signs and Parisian chit chat
• sadness, marriage, Scott Fitzgerald's balls: A Moveable Feast chit chat
• Bonjour Tristesse: writing about the past
• Rosa-tinted spectacles, Rosa on the Rise and other Rosa-related puns
  
• obsession with the passing of time