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Hello, welcome to a good read, where I'm joined today by the novelist Meg Rosoff

and the writer, stand-up and actress Sarah Pascoe. On TV, Sarah's appeared in, among others,

being human, and one of my favourites, 2012, where she played the dozy

trend analyst Cocoa Lomax. Her highly successful solo shows have moved London's evening standard

to describe her style thus, a cocky, cum-quiscical delivery that resembles Russell Brand,

minus the libido, meant I'm pretty sure as a compliment.

Sarah is also a dramatist, but what she's mainly doing at the moment is stand-up.

You can catch her almost any night somewhere in London.

Sarah, welcome to a good read.

Thank you very much for having me.

Well, it's a real pleasure, and a pleasure too to have you here, Meg Roseph.

Born in Boston, Meg moved to the UK permanently in 1989 and worked in publishing, journalism, politics and advertising before writing her prize-winning novel, How I Live Now. Since then, she's written eight further books and has won or been shortlisted for 18 international prizes,

including the prestigious Carnegie Medal.

Her next novel, Picture Me Gone, comes out this September and at much the same time,

the film of How I Live Now, starring Sir Sir Rohnen, goes on release.

Meg, you've said that as a reader, your first and possibly still favourite book is Dr. Zuse's The Cat in the Hat.

But that isn't what you've chosen for us.

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