Episode 169: Bodies Bodies Bodies (and books) With Daisy Buchanan
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Our guest this week is novelist and all-round treasure Daisy Buchanan - who is no stranger to this podcast because now and again we ask her to come on and tell us what we need to be reading. She hosts the literary You’re Booked podcast and has just written another great novel - Limelight - which is about women and bodies and bodies and shame and sex and bodies and how we take up space in the world. We talk about how we are trained to look at ourselves and why things like sex and photographs are so complicated because sometimes we are not sure who we are doing it for...Plus brilliant book recommendations to help you get through Summer... BUCHANAN'S BOOKS: Lucy Vine's Seven Exes Hema Sukumar's Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Now You See Us Lauren Bravo’s Preloved  And Limelight by the lady herself…from all good independent bookshops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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