Our book for this episode is Karina May’s Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast, and the conversation it sparks floats around how romantic comedies feed us, how this genre, especially in good hands (hey Karina) is so soothing because it is inherently optimistic. You just know love will triumph in the end.

And in a world where nothing much makes sense at the moment, that is a welcome comfort. We really enjoyed this book, talking about and around it. Hope you do too!

Other things we cover in this episode;

* Our favourite food-focussed rom coms.

* Ikea (it’s our protagonist’s happy place) as a one-dimensional version of home.

* Food as a key to a character finding themselves.

* The perfect ‘welcome cake’.

* And the perfect book for when we need to make big choices and reconcile them in ourselves

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Thanks, Germaine and Sophie x

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We acknowledge that the land on which we work and live is the traditional land of the Wiradjuri Nation (Sophie) and the Gadigal of the Eora Nation (Germaine). We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations people.

Thank you as always to our producer Kristy Reading and to Smith and Jones for generously allowing us to include your beautiful song Small Town Woman at the beginning and end of this episode.

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