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It's a warm welcome back today to Lizz Lidbury who joins me to talk about The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr. This is such an accessible brilliant book. It's described in a lot of reviews as being for people who loved Eleanor Oliphant and I admit I did love Eleanor Oliphant but I'm not convinced that it is so similar to Eleanor Oliphant to need to be pigeonholed in that way.

Lizz and I have had a really enjoyable time talking about it thinking about the characters some of the wonderful cast within the book. We thought about the difference between listening to an audiobook when the characters have particular voices or are portrayed in particular ways by the narrator. We talk about social isolation. We talk about scaffolding young people. We talk about hopes and aspirations and about biscuits.

We also mentioned our love of this facebook Medics book group https://www.facebook.com/groups/135276503690822

We recommend the charity Autistic Girls Network which is a wonderful charity and maybe just like the one Elvira finds support from online https://autisticgirlsnetwork.org/

We talked about the recent meta-analysis of the power of reading fiction to improve empathy which can be found here
https://kar.kent.ac.uk/105137/1/AcceptedManuscript_260224.pdf