Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright, coming to you from the Hot, Hot City.

Very early in the morning, because we are recording this before breakfast today.

Hi, Carrie. How you doing?

I'm coming to you from the hot, hot, slightly smaller city of Oxford, but it's still hot, hot.

And yeah, it's our last episode before our summer break, which is exciting for us.

Maybe not so exciting for our listeners.

I'm looking forward to the break.

And it's a very, very summary day to record this.

So that feels appropriate, doesn't it?

Yeah, it's beautiful. But I'm doing well. I love hot weather. Love it. Love sunshine.

So I've been trying to soak it up. And actually, we were talking just before the call about that, like, almost desperation to the point of it being a problem that I feel like I need to utilize

every single second of sunshine that I have.

And it becomes a kind of mania when the weather is nice like this.

So, yeah.

So I mean, ups and downs, even if you're not weather.

Honestly, it's the most British feeling available.

Sunshine panic, like hot weather anxiety.

How are you?

Oh, I'm good.

Yeah, similarly, just like over the moon at this weather,

I feel like we really, really, really needed it after everything.

And I just got back from a little trip away, which was,

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