"The Special Relationship": The strange case of American women and English men with Monica Heisey
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Swift and Matty Healy, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, Carrie Bradshaw and Duncan who lives downstairs. Too Much writer and actual-lover of English men Monica Heisey returns to talk about the hundred year tradition of American girls coming to England to fall in love.
Monica's book Really Good Actually is available now. Her show, Smothered is available on SKY.
Tickets for Caroline's Library of National Congress National Book Festival event: https://www.loc.gov/events/2025-national-book-festival/schedule/item/event-417959/weird-times-in-otherworldly-novels-ya-with-caroline-odonoghue-and-ransom-riggs/2025-09-06/
The Strand with friend of the pod Natasha Hodgson! http://eventbrite.com/e/caroline-odonoghue-skipshock-tickets-1591998192449?aff=oddtdtcreator
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| 0:27.2 | Hi everyone. This week's episode of the podcast is about the relationship between American women and English men in the context of rom-coms and romantic fiction. And it's interesting that we're talking so much about like the American gaze this week because I'm actually going to be in an America really, really soon. On the 6th of September, I am going to be at the Library of National Congress doing a speaking event with Ransom Rigs at the National Book Festival. |
| 0:32.4 | It's going to be at 9.30 in the morning. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm going to have a signing afterwards. |
| 0:35.6 | It's going to be great. |
| 0:36.6 | I can't wait. I'll put a link to the tickets in the show. I'm going to have a signing afterwards. It's going to be great. I can't wait. |
| 0:37.7 | I'll put a link to the tickets in the show notes. Please, please, please, dump up tickets. I have |
| 0:42.8 | never been to Washington before and I'm coming at an extremely strange time in the city's history. |
| 0:48.0 | So I would love to be made feel welcome by any sentimental garbage fans in the vicinity. |
| 0:53.3 | Then the very next day, on the 7th of September, I have an event. |
| 0:58.1 | I think I'm more excited for this event than anything I've ever done in the past. |
| 1:02.6 | And I, like, include, you know, selling out theaters in that. |
| 1:07.4 | So I am going to be at the Strand Bookstore in New York City the very next day, Sunday, September 7th. |
| 1:15.6 | And I'm going to be interviewed by someone extremely special, special full stop, but like also extremely special to me. |
| 1:24.6 | You guys might know my friend Natasha Hodgson. She is one of the writers and performers, |
| 1:30.1 | Tony nominated performers, of Operation Mincemeat. And she's obviously in New York at the moment because |
| 1:36.8 | she's a Broadway star. She's also done episodes of this podcast in the past, including our |
| 1:41.2 | wicked episode, which many of you loved. But Tash is also the |
| 1:46.7 | audiobook narrator for my latest book, Skipshank, which I know I've spoken about on this podcast |
| 1:51.6 | before. It is the most incredible audiobook I have ever definitely heard of my own work, |
| 1:58.6 | which is a steep, steep, you know, standard. I can't believe |
| 2:04.4 | I, not only I have a Tony nominated performer doing my audiobook, and she's also one of my |
| 2:10.1 | oldest friends, and she is going to be interviewing me at the Strand, one of the most, like, |
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