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In particular, I want cloth bound, particularly for, like, my gaslight, my vintage style books.

Um, uh, ever since I discovered secondhand books, and particularly very old editions, um, I have some on my shelf, which I still love.

Uh, I have a matched set of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, uh, which are simultaneously my, uh, [laughs] my favorite and least favorite, um, Brontë novels, but also kind of classic novels really.

Uh, but in beautiful matching old green cloth bound with slightly faded foil on them.

I just love, um, those sort of old books.

I have a copy of Pride and Prejudice.

I've, I've actually got so many copies of Pride and Prejudice, it's kind of embarrassing, but I do have a very nice one with, um ...

It, it's more of a replica modern edition, but I bought it 20 years ago, so it's practically vintage now, and it has all the old illustrations, which I love, which include, uh, a blonde Elizabeth Bennet, honestly.

Um, one of my [laughs] ...

I said on one of the social media recently, one of my weirder Jane Austen headcanons is thinking of Lizzie as a blonde.

Uh, that's because the first version that I watched was the 1940 movie with Laurence Olivier and, um, Greer Garson.

Uh, my other weird headcanon is that I also automatically think Greer Garson is a blonde, because I saw her in that movie, and it was black and white.

I didn't know she was a redhead.

Uh, but yeah, those lovely old illustrations.

Have, have Lizzie as a blonde, which is not relevant really to anything except that when I created Dimity, the hero of this book, um, I did in fact, uh, default to her as a, a blonde, a Austen-style heroine.

So she has a little bit of Emma in her, I think, as well as, uh, Caroline Bingley, but she's definitely my take on Caroline Bingley, and she's a s- she's definitely a softer version than most people would be familiar with from the adaptations, who tend to make her older and a little bit harsher, and she's always a brunette, and she's always bl- played by somebody fabulous like, I mean, Anna Chancellor or, um, uh ...

Yeah, no, just we've had some wonderful Caroline Bingleys.

It's a great part.

However, going back to the original book, while she does say the occasional very unfortunate thing, uh, and she's clearly ...

Like, she's, she's a bit bitchy.

That's fine.

I don't mind.

I quite like a, a fictional bitchy character.

Um, as long as they're actually a bitchy character.

You're not just calling somebody a bitch, you know, which is a different thing, but somebody who's ...