Dolly Alderton

How hard is it to just lie there and convalesce for a couple of weeks, like the doctors said? And I should explain the reason for going to the castle.

The reason why I wrote this book, how this book begins, is that my son was invited to a party being held by a stranger that his friend had met earlier that week on Tinder.

And so they drove to the forests of Connecticut passing all the red flags.

And this guy's house was a massive castle with way too many turrets, a newly built castle, unbelievably ostentatious.

And she's like, yeah, but you're still being purposeful, like just sitting.

Like Harriet and I will go for a walk around the garden and all we'll come back into the house with is a list of jobs.

to make the garden better or make the house better or things that need painting stuff that needs mending every day should we go through our list of jobs there's this obsession we have it in our house not just me my wife as well with like and actually a friend of mine he's getting divorced And he won't mind me saying that I sat down and said to him, what went wrong? And he said, we've turned into a relationship and a life of projects.

So the first project was let's get jobs.

and then they get into relationships.

They're like a Dolly Alderton right now.

Maybe she's in a relationship.

She's really private about that now.

So welcome to Bhavna Chauhan, an associate publisher at Doubleday Canada, where she edits and oversees the Imprints commercial program.

A book business veteran of nearly three decades, including 10 years as a bookseller, she now works across several genres with an array of brilliant writers, including Heather Marshall, Sherry LaPena, Leon Moriarty, Eva Jurczyk, Dolly Alderton, Shipley Samaya Gowda, Chantelle Gerton, Rick Mufina, and Molly Bader.

As an editor, she's on the hunt for smart, feel good, and sometimes laugh out loud at market book fiction that features unforgettable characters on life-affirming journeys and sophisticated, intricately crafted psychological thrillers that play with form.

Welcome to our show, Bhavna.

It just kind of peters out as a trailer, in my opinion.

You could have a little bit more hopeful or like... clearly play a little bit more into what the romantic story that is going to be there and that kind of stuff I think that would have sold this a little bit better so while I'm intrigued and I think everybody in it looks pretty good I like most of the people in this one up one down for me for this one Eternal Return is coming to American cinemas on the 3rd of December no Australian release date next trailer is for Pride and Prejudice Credited by Dolly Alderton, starring Emma Corrin, Jack Loudon, Olivia Colman, and Rufus Sewell.

Elizabeth Bennett and the wealthy landowner Fitzwilliam Darcy navigate pride and prejudice as obstacles in their complex relationship before finding love and marriage.

Dylan, what do you think of this latest adaptation of Pride and Prejudice?