The Oxford Book Club - Sarah Franklin - 11th October 2016
David Prever is joined by writer, editor and lecturer in publishing at Oxford Brookes University, Sarah Franklin. Sarah recommends the latest novel by Maria Semple - the bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Today Will Be Different is set in Seattle, and follows a day in the life of Eleanor Flood as she tries to make today... better. "It's funny and sad and really, really good". Sarah chooses a non-fiction title in When in French, by Lauren Collins. The story of an American who moves to England, falls in love with a Frenchman, and decides she has to learn his language in order to properly know him.
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