Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G. This episode,

this bonus Thursday episode, is brought to you by Fat Tired Tours. Use the code word

earful to get 10% off your tours and hang around at the end of the episode. I'll be talking to you

about how I did a skip the lion trip up to the top of the Eiffel Tower and I went full tourist

and I loved it. But let me tell you a little bit about today's episode.

I really like this, sir.

I like this chat.

I think you're going to like it too.

It was, you'll feel, I think, that it sounds like a chat between two old friends,

except believe it or not, Anne and I had never met or really been in contact before.

But I think we just hit it off so if you're not familiar with the name of Anne Marr you should be she's a writer who's done a couple of books

you might have heard of mastering the art of French eating in 2013 and more recently the lost

vintage a novel and that has just come out in paperback and that's what we talk about in this

episode but it's a bestseller.

So you probably have heard about her. But before we get into the chat, which is a really

wide-ranging chat as well, we talked about all kinds of stuff like, I mean, we went all over

the place in just half an hour. But I wanted to say, if you are a supporter of this show via Patreon, if you're in the book club, if you're a book club

member, I got good news for you and was generous enough to give five copies of this new book.

I'm going to raffle them off.

Let's say by the end of the month, August 31st, I'll pick five winners and you'll get the book

sent to you.

So keep that in mind while you're listening to

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