As our new year begins and we recover from various forms of seasonal celebration, so does the stay-at-home dad in Richard Scrimger’s novel Still Life with Children (HarperCollins).
He has survived Christmas and looks forward longingly to the simple pleasures of folding laundry. With four young children to “help” what could go wrong?
Episode seven: Fears both real and imagined are top of the list in this chapter.
Episode eight: Scrimger regrets his promise to take the kids to the amusement park.
Episode nine: Is cottage country ready for the Scrimgers?
Episode 10: The Scrimgers plan to move and set out to tie up all those loose ends.
Each episode of Between The Covers is between 15 and 17 minutes. If you missed previous podcasts you can download them at Between the Covers podcasts.
And if you’re interested in readings of other Canadian books, check out the Hear A Reading page on the Between the Covers site. At the moment, you can listen to Lawrence Hill’s media satire Some Great Thing (Turnstone Press).
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