Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, authors of the best-selling book I’m Absolutely Fine!, are now here weekly. This week we’ve made an appointment with the book doctor. We talk to writer, podcaster and professional bookworm Daisy Buchanan about her literary prescriptions for heartbreak, trauma, envy, loneliness and money panic.

P.S. Here are all the books we talked about…

ENVY

Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth

Crazy Salad & Scribble Scribble by Nora Ephron

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

GRUMPINESS

The whole of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend

Diary Of A Nobody by George Grossmith

HEARTBREAK

Imogen by Jilly Cooper

Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun

LONELINESS

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers

MONEY WORRIES

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

OPTIMISM

Almost Everything: Notes On Hope by Anne Lamott

Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes

TRAUMA

The Lark by E Nesbit

Man At The Helm by Nina Stibbe

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