64: Everything Is Fine, with Gillian Harvey

08/27/20 • 21 min

Our guest today is Gillian Harvey, the author of Everything Is Fine. She and I talked about how she ended up living in France, how social media can affect our self-worth, and more.

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Books Mentioned on the Podcast:

Everything is Fine, by Gillian Harvey

A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle

A Year in the Merde, by Stephen Clark

The Neighbour, by Nicola Gill

Normal People, by Sally Rooney

This Lovely City, by Louise Hare

After the End, by Clare Mackintosh

Intimations, by Zadie Smith

The Fleet Street Girls, by Julie Welch

Love in Colour, by Bolu Babalola

Diamonds at the Lost and Found, by Sarah Aspinall

Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart

Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe

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In the UK, you can support the podcast by using this link to buy from Blackwells.com, which ships internationally at inexpensive rates.

Get your first two audiobooks for just $14.99 with the code BRITLIT on Libro.fm.

Buy Claire’s novel, Unscripted.

Questions? Comments? Need a book recommendation? Email Claire at [email protected]

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Our guest today is Gillian Harvey, the author of Everything Is Fine. She and I talked about how she ended up living in France, how social media can affect our self-worth, and more.

*****

Want to help the Brit Lit Podcast survive and thrive? Here are some painless ways.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast:

Everything is Fine, by Gillian Harvey

A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle

A Year in the Merde, by Stephen Clark

The Neighbour, by Nicola Gill

Normal People, by Sally Rooney

This Lovely City, by Louise Hare

After the End, by Clare Mackintosh

Intimations, by Zadie Smith

The Fleet Street Girls, by Julie Welch

Love in Colour, by Bolu Babalola

Diamonds at the Lost and Found, by Sarah Aspinall

Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart

Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe

*****

Want to help the Brit Lit Podcast survive and thrive? Here are some painless ways.

In the US, buy your hardbacks and paperbacks from Bookshop.org to support the podcast, as well as independent bookshops!

In the UK, you can support the podcast by using this link to buy from Blackwells.com, which ships internationally at inexpensive rates.

Get your first two audiobooks for just $14.99 with the code BRITLIT on Libro.fm.

Buy Claire’s novel, Unscripted.

Questions? Comments? Need a book recommendation? Email Claire at [email protected]

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63: Come Again, with Robert Webb

Our guest on episode 63 is Robert Webb, who, as well as being a writer, is an actor, best known for the hit British comedy Peep Show. He’s the author most recently of the novel Come Again. He describes that novel like this: Middle-aged widow time travels back to 1992 and tries to save future dead husband when he is an annoying student. Grief, nostalgia, jokes, car-chase, new love, renewal, joy. He and I talked about 90s nostalgia, the unusual structure of his book, and the emotional toll of time travel.

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Books Mentioned on the Podcast:

Come Again, by Robert Webb

The Innocent, by Ian McEwan

Feel Free, by Zadie Smith

Sweet Sorry, by David Nicholls

One Day, by David Nicholls

Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry

A Star is Bored, by Byron Lane

Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher

The Golden Rule, by Amanda Craig (UK, 2nd July, literary fiction)

Hearts and Minds, by Amanda Craig

How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? by Pandora Sykes (UK, 9th July, essays)

The Hungover Games, by Sophie Heawood

My Best Friend's Girl, by Dorothy Koomson

All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

In Case You Missed It by Lindsey Kelk

Note to Boy, by Sue Clarke

Older and Wider, by Jenny Eclair (UK, 2nd July, non-fiction)

Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe

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Get your first two audiobooks for just $14.99 with the code BRITLIT on Libro.fm.

Want to help the Brit Lit Podcast survive and thrive? Here are some painless ways.

In the US, buy your hardbacks and paperbacks from Bookshop.org to support the podcast, as well as independent bookshops!

In the UK, and for paperbacks and hardbacks published in the UK and not available elsewhere, head to Blackwells.

Buy Claire’s novel, Unscripted.

I encourage you, now and always, to buy some of your books from Black-owned bookshops in London and in the UK more generally.

Questions? Comments? Need a book recommendation? Email Claire at britlitpodcast@gm...

Next Episode

65: Eudora Honeysett Is Quite Well, Thank You, with Annie Lyons

Our guest on episode 65 is Annie Lyons, who, among other books, is the author of the lovely, heart-warming novel Eudora Honeysett Is Quite Well, Thank You, known in the US as The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett. It’s about an older woman who grew up in the Second World War and is now at the end of her life, and kind of over the whole thing, and ready to be done. But then a new family moves in next door, and she makes a new friend. I read it this spring, when reading had been a struggle for weeks –it was just the book I needed.

Among other things, Annie talked to me about her recent favourite reads, her love of Mary Berry, and about her fascinating career in publishing – she worked as a bookseller on Charing Cross Road for a while, and I guarantee you will never be able to guess who her most famous customer was.

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Books Mentioned on the Podcast:

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeysett

The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes, by Ruth Hogan

Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka

Mary Berry's Christmas Collection, by Mary Berry

Mary Berry's Baking Bible, by Mary Berry

Once Upon a Tyne, by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly