Brother Of The More Famous Jack By Barbara Trapido

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20231113

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for.

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

It's the mid 1960s, and Katherine Brown has just left school.

Katherine Brown looks back on the mid 1960s, when she first met the Goldman family, whose lives would become so entwined with her own.

20231114

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

Katherine is invited to spend a weekend in Sussex.

It's the mid 1960s, and 18-year-old Katherine finds herself spending a weekend at the Sussex home of her professor of philosophy. She's been invited by a charming older man.

20231115

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

Katherine has spent the weekend in Sussex at the home of her professor of philosophy.

Katherine has spent the weekend at the home of her professor of philosophy. John Millet, the handsome middle-aged man who invited her, turns out to be an old friend of the Goldmans

20231116

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

Katherine has just started a degree in philosophy in London. Roger Goldman is in Kenya.

The late 1960s and Katherine has just started university in London. Meanwhile, Roger Goldman, the eldest son of her professor, who she met in the summer, has begun to write to her.

20231117

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

As the 1960s draw to a close, Katherine is about to graduate.

As the 1960s draw to a close, Katherine is about to graduate. She continues her secretive romance with Roger Goldman, the son of her philosophy professor.

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20231120

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

Katherine has graduated and found work teaching English in Rome.

It's the early 1970s and Katherine has left university and the bitter ending of her relationship with Roger Goldman. She has found work teaching English in Rome.

20231121

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

Katherine refuses Michele's request to terminate her pregnancy.

Katherine is still in Rome. It's the late 1970s, and she has refused the urgings of her married lover, Michele, to have an abortion.

20231122

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

Katherine has returned to London and is recovering from the death of her baby daughter.

Katherine has returned to London and is recovering from the death of her baby daughter. Fifteen years after first meeting the Goldman family, she has reconnected with them.

20231123

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

Katherine has moved in with Jonathan and started work as a copy editor.

The routine of her job at Jacob's publisher and domestic life with Jonathan are a happy combination for Katherine, but she has yet to encounter Roger again.

20231124

Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including :

The perfect book' - Meg Mason

The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett

A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple

Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby

I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl

Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times

Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love.

Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters

Read by Sally Phillips

Marriage suits the young couple.

Following Jane's pragmatic advice that they should get married in order to reassure an adoption agency – Jonathan and Katherine duly become man and wife in a civil ceremony.

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01	20231113	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips It's the mid 1960s, and Katherine Brown has just left school. Katherine Brown looks back on the mid 1960s, when she first met the Goldman family, whose lives would become so entwined with her own.
02	20231114	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips Katherine is invited to spend a weekend in Sussex. It's the mid 1960s, and 18-year-old Katherine finds herself spending a weekend at the Sussex home of her professor of philosophy. She's been invited by a charming older man.
03	20231115	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips Katherine has spent the weekend in Sussex at the home of her professor of philosophy. Katherine has spent the weekend at the home of her professor of philosophy. John Millet, the handsome middle-aged man who invited her, turns out to be an old friend of the Goldmans
04	20231116	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips Katherine has just started a degree in philosophy in London. Roger Goldman is in Kenya. The late 1960s and Katherine has just started university in London. Meanwhile, Roger Goldman, the eldest son of her professor, who she met in the summer, has begun to write to her.
05	20231117	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips As the 1960s draw to a close, Katherine is about to graduate. As the 1960s draw to a close, Katherine is about to graduate. She continues her secretive romance with Roger Goldman, the son of her philosophy professor.
05 LAST	20231117
06	20231120	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips Katherine has graduated and found work teaching English in Rome. It's the early 1970s and Katherine has left university and the bitter ending of her relationship with Roger Goldman. She has found work teaching English in Rome.
07	20231121	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips Katherine refuses Michele's request to terminate her pregnancy. Katherine is still in Rome. It's the late 1970s, and she has refused the urgings of her married lover, Michele, to have an abortion.
08	20231122	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips Katherine has returned to London and is recovering from the death of her baby daughter. Katherine has returned to London and is recovering from the death of her baby daughter. Fifteen years after first meeting the Goldman family, she has reconnected with them.
09	20231123	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips Katherine has moved in with Jonathan and started work as a copy editor. The routine of her job at Jacob's publisher and domestic life with Jonathan are a happy combination for Katherine, but she has yet to encounter Roger again.
10	20231124	Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's first novel. Published in 1982, it soon acquired countless fans as well as winning prizes and, in more recent years, admirers including : The perfect book' - Meg Mason The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann Patchett A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple Funny, charming, teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby I adored it . Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Times Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for. Sally Phillips, much loved star of Clare in the Community, returns to BBC Radio 4 with this delightful comic tale of the joys and anguish of young love. Abridged by Mark Kilfoyle and Jill Waters Read by Sally Phillips Marriage suits the young couple. Following Jane's pragmatic advice that they should get married in order to reassure an adoption agency – Jonathan and Katherine duly become man and wife in a civil ceremony.