{"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-8195-2dfc83d7a3e9/6692562e57c5dc027b3d8a00?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Catherine Gray - You're Booked","description":"<p>Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/unexpectedjoyof/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Catherine Gray</strong></a>! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/3827/9781912023387\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober</a>, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/3827/9781783256044\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary</a>, <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/3827/9781912023813\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Unexpected Joy of Being Single</a> and <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/3827/9781783255405\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sunshine Warm Sober</a>. Her debut novel <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/3827/9781802795165\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Versions of a Girl</a> has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/catherine-gray-you-re-booked\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bookshop.org store.</strong></a></p><p>Order your copy of Daisy's new novel <a href=\"https://geni.us/PityParty\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pity Party RIGHT HERE</strong></a><strong> </strong>and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at <a href=\"https://creativeconfidenceclinic.substack.com/p/a-book-cover-reveal-and-exclusive\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...</strong></a></p><p>BOOKS</p><p>Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl</p><p>Catherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober</p><p>Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca</p><p>Augusten Burroughs - Dry</p><p>Sarah Hepola - Blackout</p><p>Mark Williams and Denny Penman - Mindfulness</p><p>Sasha Scoblic - Unwasted</p><p>Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach</p><p>Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik</p><p>The School of Life - How To Overcome Your Childhood</p><p>Jilly Cooper - Rivals</p><p>Philip Pullman - Northern Lights</p><p>Anne Helen Petersen - Can't Even </p><p>Vendela Veda - We Run the Tides</p><p>Catherine Newman - Sandwich</p><p>Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere</p><p>Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters</p><p>Kiley Reid - Come and Get it</p><p>Jane Austen - Mansfield Park</p><p>Jane Austen - Emma</p><p>Nikki May - Wahala</p><p>Nikki May - This Motherless Land</p><p>Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice</p><p>Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes</p><p>Katherine May -&nbsp;The Electricity of Every Living Thing</p><p>Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia</p><p>Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine</p><p>Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary</p><p>Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable</p><p>Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight </p><p>Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City</p><p>Jay McInerney - The Story of My Life</p><p>George Eliot - Middlemarch</p><p>Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser</p><p>Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things</p><p>Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow</p><p>Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife</p><p>David Sedaris - The Best of Me</p><p>Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy</p><p>Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit</p><p>Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean</p><p>Clare Keegan - Foster</p><p>Frances Quinn - That Bone Setter Woman</p><p>Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name</p><p>Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry</p>","author_name":"Daisy Buchanan"}