Jul 15, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
If you love books as much as Hannah does, this episode is for you. Join her for a relaxed conversation about the books she's loved recently, the ones she wouldn't necessarily recommend, and the titles…
So the first book I'm gonna start with is one that has been quite a controversy.
She's not written a novel before, as far as I can tell, and it has already been optioned by Anne Hathaway to make it into a film.
It's about a woman called Natalie who's built a hugely successful online life as the perfect trad wife.
Um, and you know, it has all of the-- it's just this beautiful, idyllic place where she's got all her children and, uh, a lot of money, essentially, milking goats and sharing this idyllic vision of family life, as if she is back in the, the time zone of the trad wife, which is in the 1850s.
Then one morning she wakes up, and she's back in 1855, and the book looks at that, and it's not really about time travel.
So, uh, before you think she's time traveling, I'm, I'm, I'm not gonna say any more than that.
It looks at feminism and what does that really mean, and marriage, and the dangerous temptation to believe that perhaps the past is better or simpler or what we should be l- trying to live in.
It's a fiction book, but it's also a bit psychological thriller as well, and it's also a bit farcical and a bit of a sat- sat- satirical look at life, um, in the modern times with social media influencers.
Some people fell somewhere in between, but there's a lot of discussion about this book.
I felt like there were parts of it that I thought were excellent, [clears throat] I, I really thought were brilliant, and then there were other bits that I thought were a bit disappointing or could've been expanded or, or made better.
So the first book I'm gonna start with is one that has been quite a controversy.
She's not written a novel before, as far as I can tell, and it has already been optioned by Anne Hathaway to make it into a film.
It's about a woman called Natalie who's built a hugely successful online life as the perfect trad wife.
Um, and you know, it has all of the-- it's just this beautiful, idyllic place where she's got all her children and, uh, a lot of money, essentially, milking goats and sharing this idyllic vision of family life, as if she is back in the, the time zone of the trad wife, which is in the 1850s.
Then one morning she wakes up, and she's back in 1855, and the book looks at that, and it's not really about time travel.
So, uh, before you think she's time traveling, I'm, I'm, I'm not gonna say any more than that.
It looks at feminism and what does that really mean, and marriage, and the dangerous temptation to believe that perhaps the past is better or simpler or what we should be l- trying to live in.
It's a fiction book, but it's also a bit psychological thriller as well, and it's also a bit farcical and a bit of a sat- sat- satirical look at life, um, in the modern times with social media influencers.
Some people fell somewhere in between, but there's a lot of discussion about this book.
I felt like there were parts of it that I thought were excellent, [clears throat] I, I really thought were brilliant, and then there were other bits that I thought were a bit disappointing or could've been expanded or, or made better.
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