We couldn't be happier to be Shelf Isolating with this week's guest - author, journalist and all around book guru Sarra Manning! Sarra is one of our favourite people on the planet as well as a brilliant former guest who has impeccable book taste. We talked to her about foisting favourite books, rigorous rereading, investigating the aristocracy and there are many, many book recommendations.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood
Sarra Manning - Rescue Me
Anne de Courcy - Debs at War
Anne de Courcy - Viceroy’s daughters
Nicolas Coleridge - Glossy Years
PG Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie
Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence
Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters
Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles
EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
Susie Steiner - Missing Presumed
Jane Casey - The Burning
Louise Cavendish - Our House
Penny Vincenzi - No Angel
RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September
Angela Thirkell - Before Lunch
Victoria Wood - Chunky
Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader
Sara Davidson - Loose Change
Lisa Taddeo - Three Women
Cathleen Schine - Grammarians
Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
Jane Oliver - Business as Usual
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift
Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess
Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck
LM Montgomery - Blue Castle
Noel Streatfeild - Vicarage Family
Artemis Cooper - Elizabeth David
Hannah Tovey - Education of Ivy Edwards
Sarra Manning - Unsticky
Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday
Marian Keyes - Grown Ups
Holly Bourne - Pretending
Sarra Manning - You Don’t Have To Say you Love Me
Sarra Manning - Let’s Get Lost
Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp
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