In this first episode of Best Book Forward I was delighted to be joined by Helen Paris; author of Lost Property and The Invisible Women's Club.

Helen shared wonderful memories of buying her childhood favourites with her dad at WHSmiths at weekends, a wonderful teacher who introduced her to a book she loves and the books that inspired her love of reading and writing.

Helen’s Desert Island Books choices are:

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

Of course, when you’re talking to somebody who is as passionate about books as Helen is, lots of other books get mentioned so here are the other books we talked about in this episode.

Second Spring by Kate Codrington

Another Life by Jodie Chapman

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

If you would like to hear more from Helen Paris, please do keep an eye out as there is a bonus episode coming where we discuss more about Helen’s life as a reader and a writer and she shares a bookish secret with us!

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This episode of Best Book Forward was produced by Buckers at Decibelle Creative @decibelle_creative / www.decibellecreative.com