Our guest on episode 74 of the Brit Lit Podcast, is Lizzy Dent, who wrote The Summer Job, and who's also a YA author -- as Rebecca Denton, she wrote This Beats Perfect, among other books.
She and I talked about her favourite food writing, what it's like to have a novel come out during a pandemic, why we love the book Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, and more.
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