Watermelon with Lucy Vine
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week is full of firsts: we're discussing Marian Keyes' first book, Watermelon, which also happens to be the first chick-lit that our guest Lucy Vine ever read. We get into the Walsh sisters, emotional abuse and why all debut novels are exactly two months long. We also grab Marian herself on the phone to talk about her memories of writing the book and the benefits of not having a clue what you're doing.
Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to Sentimental Garbage, a podcast celebrating Chicklet and the so-called |
| 0:09.0 | guilty pleasures you're sort of done feeling guilty about. |
| 0:11.0 | My name is Caroline Dunnehoo and when I released my first novel this year of Denny |
| 0:16.6 | and I'm done who and when I released my first novel this year I found myself being |
| 0:15.8 | asked the same two questions over and over again. |
| 0:18.7 | One did I think of my novel as Jicklet and two was I offended if it were called that. |
| 0:23.0 | Which is weird because all the best women I know are also devoted fans of |
| 0:27.0 | Chicklet and this podcast is dedicated to examining |
| 0:30.0 | what's good, great and occasionally questionable about the genre. |
| 0:34.0 | Today I'm joined by author of a hot mess and what fresh hell, Lucy Vine. |
| 0:37.8 | We're talking about Watermelon by Marion Keys. |
| 0:40.6 | Hi Lucy. |
| 0:41.4 | Hello! |
| 0:42.4 | How are you? Thank you so much having me. First off I want to ask why you |
| 0:47.0 | picked watermelon? Because it's amazing. No, it was actually the first book I read that would kind of come into that category of |
| 0:55.1 | Chicklet when I was a teenager. |
| 0:57.1 | Mine too. |
| 0:58.1 | Yay! |
| 0:59.1 | And it's just such a brilliant because Chicklet obviously gets dismissed in a horrible demeaning patronizing way a lot of the time. |
| 1:06.4 | And I was like that when I was a teenager. |
| 1:08.3 | I was off in my room reading Dickens and Thomas Hardy and stuff and thought I was so clever. So when I read |
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