Daisy Buchanan

But I wanted to see what people thought.

really really read and i think that now you know it's so unusual when everything's quite sort of you know virtual digital or so much is read on a screen this idea that a book is such a tactile object and to find the things that look like they've been well loved and well handled so i remember we went to um alif shivak's fabulous shelves which you know because she's a

amazing writer he sort of impressed me greatly and I was thrilled to discover that her books are she's got so many of them and she's got a proper like a sort of a beauty and the beast like a bell library ledger also um my favorite authors are the ones that don't have a filing system necessarily um she had a real an amazing array of books um we did a series in America which was uh

Brilliant fun.

And we saw Amor Tulls has an incredible collection of early editions of Ian Fleming books.

Also, Taylor Jenkins Reid, we recorded an episode with her in Book Soup in Los Angeles.

And that was great fun because it was almost like a fantasy shopping trip.

The thing I will never forget, she's talking about the research she did for Daisy Jones and the Six and reading all the music there.

And she was talking about a biography she really enjoyed, Bruce Springsteen.

what absolutely has to be on there what if we're poking away at your bookshelf which are the ones that matter oh i'm gonna take you over there now i'm trying not to make too much noise with my chair so i do i have a marion keys shelf marion keys is a writer i think i've as long as i remember loving books and choosing them for myself probably of them the most well-thumbed is the

A copy of Rachel's Holiday.

I'm ashamed to admit it's lost its dust jacket, but I read that at least once a year.

That's a good sign, though, isn't it?

It means it's well read.

Definitely.

I mean, I wish I was a bit more organised and, you know, I wish I was, I should, I respect these books and yet I don't keep them as beautifully as they should be kept.

It's probably been on holiday with me appropriately and in the bath as well.

But it is part of Marion Key's series about the Walsh sisters.

And Rachel is sort of the difficult middle child.

And she's been living in New York glamorously.