Listeners, I'm sitting in my garden, it feels lovely and sunny, I feel like I'm on holiday

for Monest, which is very apt because I've got some more holiday reading for you.

This episode of Homo sapient is sponsored by Better Left Unsaid from Tufael Ahmed, author

of the acclaimed novel This Way Out. Better Left Unsaid is about three siblings navigating

life after their mother's death. They're all living separate lives trying to live

up to their last promises they each made to their mother.

Until a viral news piece throws an unwanted spotlight on the family and forces the siblings

back into each other's lives. Three siblings, three promises, three lifetimes of saying

all the wrong things. Gosh, it feels familiar. I'll leave it at that for now, it's a really

good read. The novel is available at Amazon.co.uk forward slash Homo sapiens. I love it when

they do a little URL for us. Those with a Kindle Unlimited subscription can read at no additional

extra cost. That's www.amazon.co.uk forward slash Homo sapiens. Better Left Unsaid is available

20th September in e-book, paperbook and audiobook editions. Mmm, get involved.

Hello, this is part two of our chat with the lovely Tom Cox at Unlikely Dead on Instagram.

And we're talking all about LGBTQ plus adoption because that's what Tom has done and shares

his story. And he's amazing. His whole family are amazing him and his son, Kai and his husband,

Danny, who I feel like I know so well because I devout all that content on Instagram. This

is part two if you haven't had part one, go back to the feed, listen to that part. Thanks,

he got. Do you remember the first moment of you bonding with him? Yeah, it's funny because

every now and then I'll look back usually around his birthday, which is coming up. I tend

to look back at the albums that his foster care put together if he was a baby, but also

the early pictures of us. And there was some of us in her house trying to feed him. And

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