Elizabeth Day

And I read this book and Tom Wolfe is a former journalist turned novelist.

And it made me understand how I could use my journalistic skills because the way that he writes is it's incredibly well observed and reported.

I'd never read anything like it.

I just found it so buzzy and refreshing and brilliant.

And when I first met Justin, my now husband, we got chatting about our passions and the Bonfire of the Vanities came up.

And for my 40th birthday, which was the first birthday that we had spent together as a couple, this was part of his present to me.

And it is signed by Tom Wolfe.

Not that I have any plans to resell it.

I'm not putting it on eBay or anything like that.

But I love, as you identify, the heft of it.

Yeah, it's a really meaty, heavy book, isn't it?

And it feels appropriate to me because it's had such a sort of meaty impact on my life.

I love hearing that, Dilly.

Yeah.

But no.

There's no alphabetisation.

I know that I am friends with people who colour code their books, but it's like no shade.

Such a good question.

Actually, there wasn't that much stuff.

And that's partly because we'd both been through divorces.