The book of the moment for today’s episode is A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli. Just a forewarning for those of you listening, this is NOT a spoiler-free zone. We will be discussing this book in all of its glory, which of course includes revealing the ending.

The author of A Holly Jolly Diwali, Sonya Lalli is a romance and women’s fiction author of Punjabi and Bengali heritage. She studied law in her hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and at Columbia University in New York City. She completed an MA in Creative Writing and Publishing at City University London in 2015, and currently works as a journalist at a legal magazine in London. She has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and loves travel, yoga, piano, reading and cocktail bartending. Her books have been featured in Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Washington Post, Glamour, Globe and Mail, CBC, Toronto Star and more. Her debut novel The Matchmaker’s List was a Target Diverse Book Club Pick and a Cityline Book Club Pick. She lives in Vancouver with her husband.

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