What's Old Is New

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Kamala Nair is the author of the debut novel The Girl in the Garden, written with inspiration from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett.

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0:07 Introducing Kamala and The Girl in the Garden

1:50 Kamala’s background with The Secret Garden (in which we make the 8 year old joke again)

2:25 Re-reading The Secret Garden

4:45 Using The Secret Garden as inspiration

7:30 The parallels
8:15 The mother-daughter relationship
10:15 Realizing that our parents are people, and Jen freaks out about her father’s first name
12:45 The North-South divide in India
15:00 What is a classic? (We get into the Frankenstein and Jane Eyre things again, we just can’t leave them alone!)
19:40 Wrap-up