Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Book Show · Spritz and bubble tea with Andrew Sean Greer and Naomi Ishiguro · 12 Jul 2026
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Definitely not you.
Is that what you say?
Definitely not you.
You've called Villa Coco a charm novel.
What is a charm novel, Andrew Sean Greer?
Do we see a lot of charm novels written these days?
And there is no bank heist, but there is some interesting dealings going on in this book.
There's a bit more action than you might expect from how you're selling it.
Yeah.
I just want to come back to this charm novel concept for a moment, because I think when we talk about what defines fiction in this time, I think a lot of people would say the sad girl novel, right?
Here we've got kind of a happy man novel.
I wonder if...
I wonder if we've become cynical as readers, perhaps.
Yeah, a big fan here of Whistler, a book of good, kind people, which feels kind of revolutionary in a small way.
You were speaking about Virginia Woolf, you know, making a big call there.
But what I wanted to say was that you, of course, went down this path, right?
Before Les, you were writing quite serious works of fiction, weren't you, Andrew?
And three books later, you're still doing it.
It's totally amazing.
I have something important that I want to talk to you about, Andrew.
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