We're celebrating summer with another sultry, almost-suffocating novel from our podcast vaults, one clearly written with William Golding's Lord of the Flies in mind. When Jane White’s gripping and unsettling debut novel Quarry was first published in 1967, a review in The Scotsman called it “the most frightening novel of the year.” Joining us is White’s daughter-in-law, Dr. Helen Hughes, of the University of Surrey, who wrote the afterword to the new Boiler House Press edition of Quarry.

Mentioned in this episode:

Oxford's summer Lifelong Learning seminar on Josephine Tey

Quarry by Jane White

Norfolk Child by Jane White

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Proxy by Jane White

Beatrice, Falling by Jane White

The Neglected Books page on Jane White

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