Hello, welcome along to writers' routine. This week we're with Helen Paris, talking about her debut novel, Lost Property.

Now it is book club fiction. We try and unravel what that actually means, and if she writes with that

in mind, knowing that it's likely to be discussed and unpacked, it's kind of the point of it.

Also, we talked about why she got so bored with her routine that she escaped, and how the idea

for this one came from a stint doing some unusual research.

I had been doing some research in the Transport for London Lost Property Office in London's Baker Street

a few years ago for a different project, for a theatre project that was about lost and found

and change and regeneration. And so I was working in the last property office for a week,

because I thought that would be a spectacularly interesting place to work,

seeing that absolute sort of communication and conversation

about loss on a daily level, whether it's about the most everyday object

or whether about a very, very treasured object, you know, about the most everyday object or whether

about a very, very treasured object, which might also be a very everyday object. There is more on

the way with Helen Paris in this week's writer's routine. Yes, welcome along. It's writer's routine. My name's Dan Simpson. I hope you've had an

eventful week. I can almost guarantee you did not have as eventful a Sunday as I did. I went to

10 Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister, to interview the Prime Minister

with about two hours warning, and I ended up playing a game with him for eight-year-olds.

Play the yes-no game, if you love it. If you've got kids, maybe you play it with them.

You wouldn't be surprised to find out that a politician

is very good at answering questions where he can't say specific words. So yeah, I doubt you had

as eventful a couple of days as I had, but I hope you've enjoyed it nonetheless. This week,

we're with Helen Paris talking about her debut novel, Lost Property.

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