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This week a massive thank you and well done to Lewi Gee my amazing sound editor who tackled a recording which had been horribly messed up by a combination of technology failure and terrible Islay weather and my guest using a not very good satellite link!


It's a huge pleasure to welcome back remote and rural GP Catriona Davis to talk about Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, a retelling of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield set in Appalachia in the opiate epidemic of the early 21st Century.

It's a brilliant book with such a huge amount to discuss.  It's dark, it's deep, it's thought provoking and also filled with light.

Follow Catriona on twitter here: https://twitter.com/catrionadavis

We also mentioned the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/empire-of-pain-the-secret-history-of-the-sackler-dynasty-patrick-radden-keefe/6452138?ean=9781529063103 and the Disney+ series Dopesick - there's a fabulous episode of the Boggleddocs podcast all about this one:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1300702/12482048-dopesick-how-we-ve-all-been-sucked-in-to-the-opiate-crisis