Penguin Podcast 52 - Englishmen and Englishwomen
Buy the Book Today's podcast, guest hosted by Anna Ridley, features popular blogger turned author Catherine Sanderson and popular poet turned pop star Simon Armitage.
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Writing
with disarming honesty about Paris life, about the confines of her
hollow relationship with Mr Frog and about the wonder and pain that
comes with being a mother, she finds a new purpose to her day. As
Petite Anglaise, Catherine regains her confidence and makes virtual
friends, including one charismatic and single Englishman who lives in
Brittany, James. And after meeting James one evening in a bar,
Catherine feels she has regained her ability to fall in love, too. Visit the Petite Anglaise blog 
Living in Paris with her partner, the workaholic Mr Frog, and their
adorable toddler, Tadpole, Catherine decides to alleviate the boredom
of her metro-boulot-dodo routine by starting a blog under the name of Petite Anglaise.
From punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet,
Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been
core. And about a place, the village of Marsden in west Yorkshire,
where he can stand and look out across a huge circumference of
inspiration and influence: Joy Division, the Smiths and The Fall to the
west, the Comsat Angels and Pulp to the south, Andrew Marvell and
Larkin way out east, Ted Hughes and Plath just to the north. Gig is a
warm, vivid, wonderful book about music, poetry, family and … always …
the North.
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