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hello and welcome to the Sheerlucks book club podcast with me Heather Steele and Georgina Blaske.

Today we're joined by a very special guest Yomi Adake-K-K-K-K-K-K-A-A-A-W, the multi-winning journalist and author of

this summer's publishing event, The List.

Published in July, Yomi's debut novel

is currently spending its seventh week in a row

on the Sunday Times Best Seller list

and has been praised by everyone

from Bernine Evaristo to Paula Hawkins.

In this podcast, the three of us will be diving deep

into the list and we'll be exploring all the comments

on the Shirlax community where you've all

been speaking about the book and your thoughts and comments and you've been asking questions for Yomi

so we'll be diving deep into that in just a second but yeah let's dive in and

assume it goes without saying spoilers alert first of all how have you felt about the reaction so far like could you

have ever predicted the success it's had? Definitely not and I keep saying to people

I'm not a particularly like coy person I'm not someone who like pretend or like do the

the foe humble thing of like acting like oh my God I can't believe it and like

having secretly thought it was going to do really well yeah I definitely

expected a level of commercial success simply because it was a super lead title for Fourth State this summer and they did like put a lot into it they like I know they were really pushed

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