It runs to 224 pages, but at times feels like dozens of interwoven and overlapping stories. “You’ve ruined it for me.” She isn’t opposed, though, to lockdown pastimes, at one point brandishing a terracotta pot that she has painted to look like a lion: “probably not very sophisticated, but I enjoyed it immensely”.īut her main achievement during the pandemic is Checkout 19, a fantastically various novel consisting of seven sections in which we loosely follow a narrator – sometimes an “I”, sometimes a “we”, at different ages and in different places – through an intricate collage of ideas, sensations and emotions. Oh, and banana bread, on which I intuit that Bennett had no fixed opinions until everyone started talking about it: “I’m not making any fucking banana bread ever now,” she says. Our chat extends, but is not limited to, Beckett, suitable paint colours for bedrooms, the abolition of the monarchy, Heidegger, why theatre would be better in the morning than the evening, avant-garde writers Ann Quin and Annie Ernaux, writing on the dole and the difficulty of finding summer reading (“You can’t be reading Gombrowicz all the time”). She laughs a lot, and raucously, to the point where the ends of her sentences often disappear and then she might pause for long enough for you to wonder whether the Zoom connection has failed. Did you know Claire’s has pierced over 100 million ears… and counting?! We have some of the best ear piercing specialists around! Stop at Claire’s in MARLBOROUGH when you’re ready for new ear piercings now with an upgraded process to ensure a safe, clean & happy piercing.A conversation with Claire-Louise Bennett is a dizzying experience: one minute as rowdy as a fairground, the next more like a reflective walk through woodland.

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