![]() ![]() The author was speaking at an event promoting her new work, the psychological thriller The Narrow Door. ![]() When I was teaching boys particularly, I found that not only boys did not read as much as girls but they were put under much more pressure by parents, largely fathers, to do something else as if reading was girly … I have met a lot of men who not only didn’t read books by women but were quite proud of it. This year it’s the turn of Joanne Harris, best known as the author of Chocolat (1999) and Five Quarters of the Orange (2000).Ī report in the Daily Mailcarried a quote from her interview at the Hay Festival on Tuesday, where she relayed her experiences of teaching to an audience: ![]() It’s that time of year when “authors saying things at The Hay Festival” dominate the news headlines (not the actual news headlines, of course. Joanne Harris: shared her experiences of teaching (Keyserzozie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) ![]()
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