BONUS: Jill Mansell on Millie's Fling
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Caroline chats to Jill Mansell, author of Millie’s Fling, about snacks, how it feels when people are “ashamed” to read your books in public, and her past as a clinical neuro-physiology technician.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hi and welcome to our bonus episode of my interview with Jill Mansell, the author of |
| 0:31.1 | Millie's Fling. If you haven't listened to my chat with |
| 0:33.4 | Ella Risbridger about the book, maybe go back and listen now for the full |
| 0:36.5 | experience. Here's my full conversation with Jill in which we discuss snobbery, |
| 0:40.1 | twiglets, and why bad things happen to good people. |
| 0:45.0 | You've written like so many books and I think Millie Sling is probably somewhere in the |
| 0:48.3 | middle right? |
| 0:49.3 | Like... |
| 0:50.3 | It's towards the beginning I think. |
| 0:52.0 | Oh is it? Okay. It's probably my 11th. I'm just looking at the |
| 0:55.9 | names. Yeah, not sure. I can believe that your 11th book is somewhere near the beginning. |
| 1:03.0 | It's bizarre as the, and somebody was saying, |
| 1:06.0 | what was it not so long ago? |
| 1:08.0 | She said that I started reading your books |
| 1:09.0 | when I was sort of a teenager at school, |
| 1:11.0 | and now I'm a grandma and I just thought oh I feel 5,000 years old. |
| 1:17.9 | Well one of the things we were actually talking about because Ella I have to come out Min'm minutes being is the first one of your books |
| 1:24.5 | that I've read but Ella's been reading your books since she was eight years old and |
| 1:27.4 | and she says everything everything she knows about wine, foods, cooking everything is based on what the women in |
| 1:37.2 | Jill Mansell books were buying. |
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