Hi Garbage Fans, it's me and before we start this bonus episode I just want to let you know two things good news and bad news

The bad news is that I recorded this podcast at my kitchen table where my dog took it upon herself to decide that she was going to be the third guest on the podcast

and that she should, you know, whine, make lots of sounds on the floor, lap up her water.

The good news is that this episode is to celebrate the audiobook of Promised

Young Women, which is out now on Audible and all the other places that you get, audiobooks.

It's narrated by my friend and our guest

Tessa Coates. Keep listening until the very end. You can hear her reading an

exclusive extract which I really recommend because I think Tessa has

done a brilliant job and she's really made me like my own work again,

which is kind of a hard thing to do once a book has been out for a little while.

So yeah, enjoy the podcast and I'll speak to you soon. Hi and welcome sentimental garbage, the podcast where we talk about the checklist that made us

who we are.

My name is Karen Don Hugh and I'm an author, a journalist and a five-inch hologram asking for help. Joining me is comedian podcaster and now audiobook star Tessacodes! That's me. You're a star of audio.

Red by Tessa Coates.

Yes. So for regular listeners who are confused as to why this podcast is going on on our usual date and this is a

special bonus because Tesla you are many things to me friend muse fan But you're also, we're in a very select circumstance that I think is

I'm not very normal for friends, which is that you are reading my audio book yes yes I'm very

extremely proud and honored to be reading it and I read Caroline's debut work

promising young women and I do some voices.

It sounds really good. I've listened to a little bit this and over and I am so so pleased.

It's a very weird process audio books. They just sit you in a little room that is like the chokey but padded.

But nails. Yeah, but it's not nails and glass. It's like padding and glass and then a man sits outside the glass and he's just like off you go and you're

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