S1, E5: The Literary Edit Podcast with Helen Russell

For the fifth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the lovely Helen Russell. author, journalist and speaker. Her first book, The Year of Living Danishly, became an international bestseller and has been optioned for television. She is the author of four other critically acclaimed books, translated into 21 languages.   You can read about Helen’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:   What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Mythos by Stephen Fry Bonjour Tristesse by François Sagan The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett   Other books we spoke about included Hotel Du Lac, Wuthering Heights, The Worst Witch, Mallory Towers, The Course of Love, My Judy Garland Life and Helen’s books, which include The Year of Living Danishly, The Atlas of Happiness and Leap Year.   If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice. To contact me, email [email protected]   Facebook The Literary Edit   Instagram: @the_litedit @mshelenrussell   Twitter: @thelitedit @mshelenrussell