Harriett Gilbert is joined by comedian Shaparak Khorsandi and The Chase's Anne Hegerty. Shaparak chooses JM Coetzee's Disgrace, the story of a university lecturer in South Africa who leaves his job after an affair with a student and Anne opts for The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West, about a musical, bohemian family that in part reminds her of her own upbringing. Harriett's choice is Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink, a memoir that serves as a love letter to literature
