I also teach novels I don’t particularly like, though I don’t typically make a big deal about that again, my job (and theirs) is about something else.
I make no secret of my strong feelings about Middlemarch, after all, but I am also clear that it’s not my job or my purpose to get students to love it, or even like it: I’m trying to help them understand it, and teach them to appreciate it. I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing for me to let on that I love a particular novel. (Here’s a possible clue: I have the matching edition of Busman’s Honeymoon, and it’s inscribed to me on my 13th birthday, in 1980.) I have loved it pretty much since the first time I read it, which is a long time ago: my personal copy is from a 1978 edition, and though I can’t see any sign on it of when it was actually printed, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was close to that date, which would mean I’ve been rereading it since I was 12 or 13. Questions galore for Lord Peter Wimsey - most about the case, but one very personal.I’ve confessed here before that I can have trouble staying “ objective and professorial” during discussions of Gaudy Night because I love the novel so much. Love, jealousy and revenge complicate matters as Harriet and Lord Peter Wimsey close in. Upper-crust sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey joins Harriet to help unravel the Oxford mystery.
Posh sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey probes a poison-pen campaign at Oxford University.Īfter being victimised, Harriet Vane returns to her old college to find out who's behind the hate campaign. Harriet realises that she is not the only target of this murderous malice as she finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection-and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.ĥ episodes adapted by Michael Bakewell, directed by Enyd Williams.įirst Broadcast: BBC Radio 7 on 18 June 2010 When she attends her Oxford reunion, known as the 'Gaudy,' at sedate Shrewsbury College, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters-including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder all are perfectly ghastly yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back. Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college.
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