It’s a bumper episode 8, with Pandora and Bobby tackling two million-copy-bestselling, much-loved-movie-inspiring titans of the nineties. In Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, Pandora finds a surprisingly feminist heroine who’s no less funny 25 years on. And in Nick Hornby’s beloved High Fidelity, Bobby meets his match in a perpetually depressed man-boy who needs to love himself before anyone else can love him back.
Books/articles mentioned:
Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
High Fidelity, Fever Pitch and About a Boy by Nick Hornby
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Life Of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
One Day and Us by David Nicholls
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
Books for episode 9:
Augustown by Kei Miller
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
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