Hello and welcome to another live episode of Sentimental Garbage, the podcast

where we talk about the chicklet that made us who we are.

My name is Carol Dunnehoo and I'm an author, a journalist and the only

Italian restaurant in Naut Glen. Joining me is author, a podgaster and sexually active cottage,

Sarah Maria Griffin. And today we're talking about May Binchey's Circle of Friends.

I feel like we're all a Circle of Friends today here lads, a tight circle in.

Sarah, I've been wanting to get a tight circling

Sarah I've been wanting to get you on this podcast since I started this and when we suggested it even before we knew there was a live cast we say I asked you what to do and you immediately said this book and you'd never read it so why'd you pick it? Because it's a book that's on everybody's shelf any house that you've ever gone

into ever in your life somewhere on a

books among cookbooks or in the jacks or in the little bookshop book shelf at the

top of the stairs there is always going to be a well-worn well-loved copy of

circle of friends it doesn't matter what beach you're on oh yeah to be a well-worn, well-loved copy of Circle of Friends.

It doesn't matter what beach you're on,

in what resort in Iinapa or in like Alba

somebody is going to be cradling a large loved copy of Circle of Friends. It was also a Leave-In-Sert book the year after I did my

Leaving Start of the year before. So it was my loads of my mates were reading it and I never

got around to it because I've been told

I know that's only women see what you don't want that now that's just that's just a

bunch of people talk to each other that's just a load of girls and I have been

turned away from Maybinchy many times as a very nerdy teenager who was like yes I'm

Lord of the Rings I'm playing video games so I thought for many years that I was in some capacity

above it and I was frankly entirely

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