{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/88c77d59-05df-402d-8195-2dfc83d7a3e9/54105afb-0507-43d5-9598-f492d05896e6?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"3. Sarra Manning","description":"<p>It's Muswell Hill for Ep 3, not far from the desks of Alan Bennett, Zadie Smith, and today’s guest Sarra Manning. Sarra is a bestselling, prolific novelist, literary editor of Red, alumni of several top teen mags and one of the most prolific readers around. She told us she got rid of 800 books before our visit, just so we could move freely around her flat. But there were tons of treasure left including a precious collection of rare Noel Streatfeilds, a copy of proto bonkbuster&nbsp;<em>Lace</em>, a gorgeous collection of vintage&nbsp;<em>Chalet School</em>s with an origin story that will make you weep, and tales about books she’s bought, borrowed and stolen.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>BOOKS</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2TnD66E\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarra Manning - Unsticky</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q2XqeB\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarra Manning - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q2GRQ4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2DJsPNs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thackeray - Vanity Fair</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2PDRVUj\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2ON5Bak\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Charles Creed - Maid to Measure</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q5ojPd\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ginette Spanier - It Isn't All Mink</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OPDmYs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Anne Scott-James - In The Mink</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2PxLMJe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Edna Woolman Chase - Always in Vogue</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Pxwq7I\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ernestine Carter - With Tongue in Chic</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2DK6KhF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2BdwWil\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2ON7kMQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JD Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OPDyqE\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>William Burroughs - Cities of the Red Night</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q4gXeR\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jilly Cooper - Harriet</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OLNod7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Silwyn Williams - Give Me Back My Pride</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2BcjDyK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pam Lyons - He Was Bad</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2BcsO2e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Judy Blume - Forever</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2ONu9jr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Judy Blume - Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2PC1TFE\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EM Brent Dyer - Gay From China at the Chalet School </strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q2VMtn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EM Brent Dyer - Lavender Laughs at the Chalet School</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Pxxybs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jilly Cooper - Imogen</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2PAQl5x\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Shirley Conran - Lace</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Pzk4Mu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Judith Krantz - Princess Daisy</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OLJNMk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Judith Krantz - I'll Take Manhattan</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2PEyXNC\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jilly Cooper - Riders</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q94lTw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Judy Blume - Are You There God It's Me Margaret</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q4tI98\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Blake Nelson - Girl</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2PDlgOZ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarra Manning - Guitar Girl</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OTQGve\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>James Salter &amp; Kay Salter - Life Is Meals</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OOSLrX\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2DKOwfY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Emily St. John Mandel - Station 11</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OOSQvL\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Susan Scarlett - Clothes Pegs</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2ON8esI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Noel Streatfeild - Myra Carrol</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OMOHc1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Noel Streatfeild - Saplings</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2TkqixI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marjorie Hillis - Live Alone &amp; Like It</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2OPOWTt\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Janey Scott - Sara Gay Model Girl</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2PxyBbo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fred Vermorel - Starlust</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2PzlMgS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Frederick Carter - London at Night</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q4vhnw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Francis Marshall - London West</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Q5qbHJ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mary R Richardson - Laugh a Defiance</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Tj05zI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lorna Hill - Dream of Sadlers Wells&nbsp;</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://amzn.to/2Tn0RMf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck</strong></a></p>","author_name":"Daisy Buchanan"}