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A Good Read: Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz

Series 75, episode 6

Writers Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Joanna's choice is a historical novel set in 1912 - The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald. Sabrina's pick is The City Always Wins, a novel set in the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution by writer and film-maker Omar Robert Hamilton. Harriett argues her case for Terms and Conditions by Ysena Maxtone Graham, chronicling life in girls' boarding schools from 1939 to 1979

Cast (unconfirmed)

Harriett Gilbert
Joanna Trollope
Sabrina Mahfouz