Nicky Birch

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487 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 31 Aug

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Backlisted · Summer Reading 2023 - Rerun · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

You're not chopped liver, Andy.

I think it's just verification.

Neil and Kerry added verification to your previously good recommendation.

And I'm very pleased.

And in fact, actually, if Andy's done the recommendation, I'm like, OK, I'm good to go.

I'll definitely go for it.

So I'm very pleased to know that I'm reading something that you had recommended.

already, and you've recommended, but also on the front of this edition, it's got a fantastic kind of quote from Maggie O'Farrell that says, I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O Caledonia as her favourite book.

And as I'm a huge Maggie O'Farrell fan, I was like, yeah.

A lot of beaches, that is.

I'd never go to work.

I'd never be editing the show.

I've chosen O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker.

And it was a book that you mentioned.

And it was a really great book to read while cycling in the Highlands of Scotland because it is set in the Highlands of Scotland or at least towards Aberdeen.

And in kind of true, as you sort of trailed at the beginning, it is a bit miserable.

You know, it's not the kind of joyful book.

But what I didn't realise until after I finished and read about it is it's quite a lot of it is autobiographical.

And I was, you know, which is really amazing, actually, because Elspeth herself, like the character Janet, grew up in this large house that was also doubled up as a boy's home.

And obviously the main character, Janet, is very much into literature and books and nobody understands her and appreciates her.

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