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Well, hello everyone, and welcome back to Reading with Joy, my summer book club where we are exploring the scientific, adventurous, heart-deep book of Rinkle and Time.

I have so been enjoying reading all of your comments and thoughts on this book that's so dear to my heart.

And the great fun about how I've been doing the book club this summer is that I've been inviting a friend to discuss the book with me every week, which is really how it should be.

So I don't know why I wasn't doing this way before. But today I have the guest perhaps that I've been looking

most forward to because there's no one better in the world to discuss books with than one's

sister. So today I am welcoming Sarah Clarkson, Sarah Finkinson, I suppose, my wonderful sister.

Welcome to the show, sir.

Oh, I'm very happy to be here.

Oh, this is going to be so much fun.

So Sarah, of course, I know you quite intimately, but I suppose I should provide some introduction to you.

So tell us about where you are, what you're up to, what you spend your days doing.

Well, I am currently in a little town on the

south coast of England. I live here with my husband, who is a curate in the Church of England.

It's all very British novel. I feel like I'm in a Trollope novel or a Booge novel many of my days.

I go back and forth between chasing two adorable little elfin children, Lillian

and Samuel, Lillian's two and Samuel's, oh my goodness, six months, and then trying to write

when I have the time. So I'm currently at work on a book. I do some things on Instagram and my blog,

and I generally do a lot of thinking and reading

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