Writing joyful stories, with Beth O'Leary

Today’s episode of Best Book Forward was a dream come true for me.  Beth O’Leary was the first author I meet when I started off as a bookstagrammer and I have loved all of her books from her debut The Flatshare to her latest novel The Wake Up Call 

In this episode Beth talks about her life as a writer, writing sexy swimming pool scenes as well as how books helped her as a child to find her love of storytelling and writing.

Beth’s Desert Island Book choices are:

The Autumn Story by Jill Barklem

The Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes

Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary

The Switch by Beth O’Leary

The No Show by Beth O’Leary

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes

Authors mentioned:

Kristin Hannah

Charles Dickens

Sophie Kinsella

If you like to hear more from Beth O’Leary please do keep an eye out as there is a bonus episode coming soon where we’ll hear more about Beth’s life as a writer and a reader and she also shares a bookish secret with us.  

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