Q: A Word Child (1975)

38 unnumbered chapters (mostly days of week, over about 6 weeks)

characters: 824,360
words: 151,950

'To Peter Ady' [wiki]

(yes, Peter)

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Iris Murdoch Society · A Word Child Podcast

 

Peter Pan

 

📅 Hilary Burde, 41yo lives in Bayswater rental
👳Christopher Jameson Cather, 23yo, beautiful druggie cleaner

Treason of the Clerks, his old band 

Mick Ladderslow

🕺 Jimbo Davis, Welsh ballet dancer

👧 Alexandra 'Biscuit' Bissett

🍸 Mr Pellow, alcoholic neighbor

👵Laura Impiatt, women's page journalist

👴Freddie Impiatt, Etonian? lisps

Queen's Gate Terrace, Impiatts' house

🎓 Clifford Larr, Freddie's boss

Arthur Fisch, Crysta's swain, Hilary's underling

🤡 Reggie Farbottom, the office comic

👰Thomasina Forbes Uhlmeister (Tommy)

Mr Osmand, Hilary's kind teacher

💂Gunnar Jopling

👸Lady Katharine Mallow Jopling (Lady Kitty)

Kim Spranger

Jenny Searle [real, one of IM’s research students]
 

November

Q01: THURSDAY 👳📅📞💢

treason of the clerks [wiki]

The Sibyl’s leaves = the Cumaean Sibyl, a prophetess in ancient Rome who wrote her warnings on the leaves of oak trees [cite] 

pound floated 1971

Q02: BEFORE describing the events
Q03: FRIDAY
Q04: SATURDAY

November
Q05: MONDAY
Q06: TUESDAY

electrical strike = 1973 [cite]

Q07: WEDNESDAY
Q08: THURSDAY
Q09: I walked very fast
Q10: FRIDAY
Q11: I will now tell
Q12: SATURDAY
Q13: MONDAY
Q14: TUESDAY
Q15: WEDNESDAY
Q16: THURSDAY
Q17: FRIDAY
Q18: SATURDAY
Q19: MONDAY
Q20: TUESDAY
Q21: WEDNESDAY
Q22: THURSDAY
Q23: FRIDAY
Q24: SATURDAY
Q25: SUNDAY
Q26: MONDAY
Q27: TUESDAY
Q28: WEDNESDAY
Q29: THURSDAY
Q30: It was Thursday
Q31: FRIDAY
Q32: SATURDAY
Q33: SUNDAY
Q34: MONDAY
Q35: TUESDAY
Q36: It was later
Q37: CHRISTMAS EVE
Q38: CHRISTMAS DAY