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Sentimental Garbage

Sentimental Garbage: The Trailer

Season 1

Welcome to Sentimental Garbage, a podcast celebrating chick-lit and the so-called guilty pleasures you’re done feeling guilty about.


In series 1, author and journalist Caroline O'Donoghue talks to writers Lauren Bravo, Lucy Vine, Ayisha Malik, Ella Risbridger and Helen O'Hara about some of their favourite chick-lit novels, and gets a chance to ask authors Marian Keyes, Eva Rice and Jill Mansell all about their work.


Click subscribe now to be the first to hear series 1, launching December 6th 2018.


Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.

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