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 ebook, paperbook and audiobook editions. Hmm, get involved.

What's this ice by here sitting on the feed? It's a bonus episode. It's a culture club,

bonus episode listeners, because we've got a book to tell you about. It's called My

Mess is Bit of Life, and it is written by Georgia Pritchett, who is one of the writers

of many brilliant shows like Veep and Succession, no less. She's written a book all about anxiety

and the history of her own anxiety, but it's very funny. It will make you cackle and she

sort of takes you through her whole life, threading together stories about dating men and

dating women and then meeting her significant other. I think they're married, her life partner

who she calls the moose. I think it's her wife or the civilly partner. Stories about fertility

treatment and trying to have kids and raising kids with autism, plus also being this amazing

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