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My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

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life, check out BBC Sounds. Hello, today a novel by William Boyd, a shape-shifting

collection of stories and an old-fashioned country house murder. With me to introduce their good

read are first the author Bernardine Everisto, whose eight novels and verse fictions include

the Emperor's Babe and most recently Mr. Loverman.

With Bernardine is the satirist Jolian Rubinstein, co-creator of BBC shows The Revolution

Will Be Televised and Revolting and whose latest work is the Spotify podcast we need to talk about.

Jolian, would you talk about your good read? What is it? What are you suggesting?

Yes. My good read is Any Human Heart by William Boyd. I first read this book almost 10 years ago now,

and I was looking for a book to go away on holiday with. And a friend of mine who sometimes is prying to over exaggeration said,

look, this is the best book I've ever read.

So obviously I totally frowned at this and was like, oh, ridiculous.

And then sort of fell kind of quite madly and sort of deeply and sincerely in love with it.

It has its fault, you know, like anything that you love.

It's the imagined diaries of Logan Mount Stewart. And it's also a chronicle of the 20th century.

It's one of those books where when I actually finished it, I felt like I'd experienced quite a serious breakup. I

couldn't really get over it. I kind of would try and read something else and nothing would sort

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