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This week, we hear from Lucy Vine, author of the 2017 summer hit Hot Mess. She tells us why we need a new Bridget Jones-style heroine, talks about her favourite books of the year, and reflects on the challenges of the second novel. 
Books mentioned on the show:
Hot Mess, by Lucy Vine
Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
What Fresh Hell, by Lucy Vine
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Sweetpea, by C J Skuse
Unconventional, by Maggie Harcourt
Everything I Know About Love, by Dolly Alderton
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, by Sarah Pascoe
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
How to Be a Grown-Up, by Daisy Buchanan
How to Stop Time, by Matt Haig
Trying, by Emily Phillips
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, by Lindy West
World War Z, by Max Brooks
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry
The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War, by Sami Sukkar
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
Love in Small Letters/Love in Lowercase, by Francesc Miralles
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