S5 Debut Spotlight- 7. Daria Lavelle (Love Stories, Grief & Speculative Fiction)

On today's episode Hannah was joined by debut author Daria Lavelle to discuss her novel Aftertaste.
Aswell as discussing the book (spoiler free), Daria tells us her most romantic food memory, why we should all be going on food tours, her love of speculative fiction and lots more. If you enjoy this episode please do rate, review & subscribe and for further content you can find us via Patreon and Substack.
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Books & other mentions in this episode:
Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley
The Antidote by Karen Russell
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Let us know your thoughts by emailing us apairofbookendspod@gmail.com or you can DM us @apairofbookendspod on Instagram. Until next time, happy reading!

A weekly bookish podcast hosted by Hannah MacDonald. Join us for monthly Book Club episodes - read the book at your own pace and then listen to us deep dive with the author! Our Debut Spotlight series is to put the freshest authors and their work firmly on your radar and in our new series we bring you a monthly culture round up of all the recommendations we've collected over the previous month of consuming. Follow us @apairofbookendspod on Instagram and @apairofbookends on Twitter and TIk Tok.

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