September Book Club with Meg Mason: Bookshops, Literary Festivals & Jane Austen

For our September Book Club episode, we are delighted to be bringing you this episode with the author of one of Hannah's all time favourite books Sorrow and Bliss, that author is of course Meg Mason and for this episode Meg joins Hannah to discuss her latest novel Sophie, Standing There which you can buy here: UK, US & AUS.
In this episode they discuss the new novel (spoiler free!), how literary festivals became the backdrop for this book, what it was like featuring the familiar faces we meet throughout the novel, some of Meg's favourite bookshops & how they influenced the bookshop in this book, growing up in a sect and how that informed her protagonist's childhood plus much more!
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Books & other mentions in this episode:
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido
M. John Harrison & Julia Armfield - In Conversation at the LRB
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan
Emma by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Daunt Books - Marylebone
John Sandoe
Hill of Content
Roaring Stories
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien
Middlemarch by George Eliot

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