The Book Club: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Best of the Spectator · The Spectator
September 15, 202140m 33s
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Show Notes
<div>This week, Sam is joined by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - whose latest book is <em>The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World</em>. On the podcast he speaks about how 1851 - the year of the Great Exhibition - served as a pivot in Dickens’s own life, and set him on the path to writing <em>Bleak House</em>.</div>
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