Millie's Fling with Ella Risbridger
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Ready for chick-lit Middlemarch? Today we dive into Jill Mansell’s Millie’s Fling with author of the forthcoming Midnight Chicken & Other Recipes Worth Living For, Ella Risbridger. When 25 year old Millie witnesses the famous romance novelist Orla Hart about to throw herself off a cliff, she strikes up a friendship with Orla that changes her life. Orla has decided that she wants to write a realistic literary romance novel about “real people” and pays Millie to be her real-life subject. We talk grief, wine, shopping lists and snobbery, plus we have a sneak preview of our chat with the author ahead of the upcoming bonus episode.
Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to Sentimental Garbage, a podcast celebrating Chicklet and the so-called |
| 0:09.0 | guilty pleasures you're sort of done feeling guilty about. |
| 0:11.0 | My name is Carolina Dunnehoo and when I released my first novel this year of Denny |
| 0:16.4 | and when I released my first novel this year I found myself being asked the same two |
| 0:16.7 | questions over and over again. One did I think of my novel as jiculate and two |
| 0:21.0 | was I offended if it were called that. |
| 0:23.0 | Which is weird because all the best women I know are also devoted fans of |
| 0:27.0 | chiklet and this podcast is dedicated to examining |
| 0:30.0 | what's good, great and occasionally questionable about the genre. |
| 0:34.0 | Today I'm joined by journalist and author of the forthcoming midnight chicken and other recipes |
| 0:38.1 | worth living for, Ella Risbridger. |
| 0:40.1 | We're talking about 2001's Millies's Fling by Jill Mansell. |
| 0:43.4 | Hi, Hi friend, hi friend. |
| 0:46.2 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:47.4 | Obviously I'm not welcoming you to my life because you and I have been best friends since the moment we met. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, many, many years ago. |
| 0:56.0 | Many, many years ago. |
| 0:57.0 | It was quite of a love at first sight situation, I think. |
| 0:59.0 | It really truly was. |
| 1:00.0 | It's very befitting of this book where everyone is just gentle and holding their friend |
| 1:04.0 | This is really a book about how it is nice to have a friend. It's nice to have a friend is the meaning of the book. So what made you choose |
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