Sarah and Alice discuss their love for books with a strong sense of place and make some recommendations. They also talk about Sarah's progress in the Booker longlist, and Sarah tries to convince Alice to read The Little Friend.

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Books mentioned

• Booker longlisted books:
  • Booth
  • Case Study
  • Small Things Like These 
  • Nightcrawling
• How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
• Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton 
• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
• These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
• The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
• Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo 
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt 
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
• To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara 
• If We Were Villains by ML Rio 
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 
• The Good People by Hannah Kent 
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 
• Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton 
• Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier 
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 
• The Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson 

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