We are so excited to welcome one of our favourite ever authors to the You're Booked airwaves this week. Katherine Heiny is the author of the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser, plus the short story collection Single, Carefree, Mellow. Her books are funny, moving, wise and just fantastic. We talked to her about rice pudding, espionage, the pain of dinner parties, unnerving Judy Blume and rereading Nora Ephron.BOOKSKatherine Heiny - Standard DeviationKatherine Heiny - Single Carefree MellowKatherine Heiny - Early Morning RiserAlice Thomas Ellis - Other Side of the FireAlice Thomas Ellis - Summer HouseAlice Thomas Ellis - Unexplained LaughterStella Gibbons - Cold Comfort FarmLaurie Colwin - Home CookingNigella Lawson - FeastNora Ephron - HeartburnNora Ephron - Most of...Nell Zink - MislaidThomas Harris - Silence of the LambsThomas Harris - Red DragonStephen King - CarrieDorothy Parker - Complete StoriesBarbara Trapido - Noah’s ArkLaura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the PrairieLacy Crawford - Notes on a SilencingNaoise Dolan - Exciting TimesElif Batuman - The IdiotCarmen Maria Machado - In The Dream HouseNina Renata Aron - Good Morning Destroyer of Men’s SoulsDeborah Kay Davies - True Things About MeHelen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s DiaryNick Hornby - High FidelityMargaret Mitchell - Gone With the WindF Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the NightF Scott Fitzgerald - Great GatsbyLeo Tolstoy - Anna KareninaNorma Klein - Beginner’s LoveJudy Blume - ForeverJudy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won’tJudy Blume - Are You There God It’s Me MargaretVC Andrews - Flowers in the AtticColleen McCullough - Thorn Birds See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.