Welcome to Literary Friction on NTS. I'm Carrie Plitt here with my co-host, Octavia Bright. Hello, Octavia.

Hi, Carrie. We have a really exciting theme today. We are celebrating La Vie Boe-M.

We are indeed. Can you say that in your French accent? La Vie bohem.

Every time. Just going to have French themes every week from the original parisian bohemians of the

1850s to the pre-raphulites to the beats the bohemian lifestyle and its artistic output has always

held romantic sway over our culture today we'll be talking about what it really means to be

bohemian the best bohemian books and whether anyone can be a boho in today's

world. Are you a boho, Octavia? I mean, we're going to get on to why that's a complicated

term. Yes, okay. Well, yeah. But I'm not a boho. No, you're not a boho. I may also be

singing some rent. I literally can't wait for that. Yeah. La Veebea.

I love the voice of Carrie Plitt.

Yes.

And we have a really exciting guest today, don't we?

We do.

As usual, our theme is inspired by our author and their brilliant book.

And we've got someone especially fabulous on this month, Ema McBride.

We're super happy about it.

So Emma grew up in County Sligo in Ireland, and in 1994, when she was only 17, she went to

London, spent the next three years studying acting at Drama Centre.

At 27, she wrote her first book, A Girl is a Half-Form Thing, which we've talked about

at length on the show before.

Brilliant book.

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