Welcome along to Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith; the podcast about unrequited love. 

This episode I talk to awesome writer and speaker POORNA BELL. 

I'm a big fan of hers and have been trying to track her down for a couple of years since I was too shy (I know) to approach her at Crushed alumnus Dolly Alderton's book launch. My persistence paid off and I loved talking to her and getting an advance copy of her excellent new novel This Is Fine which is out now and highly recommended. I love that instead of doing a reading from that, she read from her teenage diary.

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On email, where you can send us anecdotes, adoration and arguments  crushedbymcs@gmail. Who doesn't love post!?

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Just out of interest: you can currently see me in Not Going Out on the iplayer, if you fancy seeing me being pedantic in a pencil skirt. 

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