Vick Hope
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first heard Jun 2026
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Hello, I'm Vic Hope and this is Book Shelfie, the podcast from the Women's Prize that asks women with lives as inspiring as any fiction to share the five books by women that have shaped them.
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Today I'm joined by Maria Semple.
Maria is a novelist and screenwriter.
Her novels Today Will Be Different.
Where Do You Go Bernadette, and this one is mine, have been translated into 40 languages.
Where Do Go Bernadette has sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2013.
Maria used to work in television, producing and writing for sitcoms and comedy specials such as Arrested Developments, The George Carlin Show, and Mad About You, which earned her a primetime Emmy nomination.
Go Gentle, her most recent novel, is out now, and it is such a pleasure to welcome you to Bookshelfie.
you very much, Vic.
It's so fun to be here.
It was a a great moment.
I think I can say this because I'm not sure exactly what order the episodes are going out in when we're recording, but you came in the room and Thierry Jones was here and there was a beautiful moment of friendship and getting to reconnect and I'm so fascinated by the relationships between authors because of course you know each other.
It
Well, let's talk about your most recent book, Go Gentle.
It's a mystery, it's a romance, it's a globe trotting adventure.
But at its heart i it explores midlife reinvention.
Can you tell us a little bit more about it?
In a review, uh one writer described tearing through it with headless pleasure which I love as a description.
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