We couldn’t be happier to be Shelf Isolating with this week’s guest – author, journalist and all around book guru Sarra Manning! Sarra is one of our favourite people on the planet as well as a brilliant former guest who has impeccable book taste. We talked to her about foisting favourite books, rigorous rereading, investigating the aristocracy and there are many, many book recommendations.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – Sisterhood

Sarra Manning – Rescue Me

Anne de Courcy – Debs at War

Anne de Courcy – Viceroy’s daughters

Nicolas Coleridge – Glossy Years

PG Wodehouse – Indiscretions of Archie

Barbara Pym – Jane and Prudence

Dorothy Whipple – They Were Sisters

Elizabeth Jane Howard – Cazalet Chronicles

EM Delafield – Diary of a Provincial Lady

Susie Steiner – Missing Presumed

Jane Casey – The Burning

Louise Cavendish – Our House

Penny Vincenzi – No Angel

RC Sherriff – Fortnight in September

Angela Thirkell – Before Lunch

Victoria Wood – Chunky

Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age

Cathy Rentzenbrink – Dear Reader

Sara Davidson – Loose Change

Lisa Taddeo – Three Women

Cathleen Schine – Grammarians

Virginia Andrews – Flowers in the Attic

Jane Oliver – Business as Usual

Noel Streatfeild – Ballet Shoes

Eva Ibbotson – Morning Gift

Eva Ibbotson – Secret Countess

Georgette Heyer – Regency Buck

LM Montgomery – Blue Castle

Noel Streatfeild – Vicarage Family

Artemis Cooper – Elizabeth David

Hannah Tovey –

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