Wifedom by Anna Funder

Author:Anna Funder [Funder, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Eileen and Orwell don’t own a radio so they go to the pub to listen to the nine o’clock news. The windows are covered, the place is soupy with smoke and chatter. When they ask the barmaid to turn on the wireless she says, ‘Oh we never turn it on. Nobody listens to it, you see . . . they’ve got the piano playing in the other bar, and they won’t turn it off just for the news.’ But she does it for them anyway. The politicians’ speeches are rousing and vague at the same time. When Orwell complains that they say so little, Eileen says uneducated people like grand speeches even if they don’t understand them – they catch the stirring feeling, and that is more important to them. This strikes Orwell as true, and he makes a note of it in his diary.

Speeches that say nothing are necessary because the facts are terrifying. Hitler’s troops have taken Denmark, Norway and now Luxembourg. France will be next. Fascists are overrunning the Continent in an unstoppable spread of black and red. Every night the blackout is earlier.

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