For this month's Book Club episode, Hannah was joined by Women's Prize long listed author of 'Small Pleasures', Clare Chambers, to discuss her latest novel Shy Creatures. They discuss the true stories that inspired her books, her research into psychiatry, why the suburbs is such a great setting to write about and lots more. If you enjoy this episode please do rate, review & subscribe as it's a free way to support the pod and means the world.For less than £3 a month and for extra exclusive content you can support us via Patreon.You can follow Clare here and to buy her books or any books mentioned in this episode visit our bookshop.org page.You can follow us via Instagram, Twitter and Tik TokBooks & other mentions in this episode: Missing Person: Alice by Simon MasonThe Muslim Cowboy by Bruce Omar YatesThe Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen GroszSanity, Madness and the Family by R.D Laing and Aaron EstersonAsylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving GoffmanLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThis House of Grief by Helen GarnerThe Good Life (Now TV)The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Amazon Prime)Keeping Up Appearances (BBC Iplayer)One Foot in the Grave (U)Thanks so much for listening, until next time- happy reading!

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