Book Club Meets: Career pivots, true crime, and 70s nostalgia, with Jennie Godfrey
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Would you choose uncertainty over unhappiness? Happy Place Book Club novel, The List of Suspicious Things, is the first book Jennie Godfrey has written. She was working in a corporate job before she had a moment of clarity and quit her job with no plan B to become a writer.
In this chat with Fearne, Jennie explains why, having suffered with anxiety, she took control and chose an uncertain future over an unhappy present, with a little help from an episode of Happy Place...!
The List of Suspicious Things centres around the murders of the Yorkshire Ripper. It sounds like a grim subject, but this story – told through the eyes of a young teenage girl – is incredibly warm and charming. Jennie also reveals her family’s own connection to Peter Sutcliffe, the man known at the time as the Yorkshire Ripper.
Plus, you’ve been sending your voice notes, reminiscing about the teenage culture of the 1970s.
Join the Happy Place Book Club on Instagram @happyplacebookclub – DM your messages and voicenotes about May’s read, Sociopath, to have your thoughts shared on the podcast!
...and don’t worry, there are no plot spoilers in this episode!
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| 0:10.0 | If you're here, listening to this show right now, I don't need to tell you how completely obsessed with books I am. |
| 0:16.0 | I am regularly posting photos of my bookshelves on Instagram, and of course those bookshelves are color coordinated. You'd expect nothing less from this |
| 0:25.0 | nerd. I absolutely adore being transported to another world through those |
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| 1:41.9 | holidays more seriously. |
| 1:44.0 | At Happy Place we spend a lot of time exploring what happiness actually means to each of us. |
| 1:50.0 | And while it looks different to everyone, there are definitely shared habits, rituals and events that many of us know can bring joy. |
| 1:59.0 | I would say that holidays are definitely one of those things. |
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