Catch up with Jennie Godfrey on The Shift Bookclub Live

It was midlife mayhem when we met with the author of bestselling debut, The List of Suspicious Things last night!

Just a quick one to let you know that this month’s The Shift Bookclub Live with Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things, is now live for you to catch up on YouTube.

Thank you to everyone who read it and came along last night. I love watching this little community grow and seeing the regular faces each month – as well as the newbies who are initially too nervous to speak up in the chat box. I admit this was a particularly gobby evening – the kind that more usually takes place with booze attached. I loved it!

As usual, the conversation was pretty varied. Jennie and I talked about growing up in the 1970s, our dads’ terrible taste in music, shoplifting black cherry lipgloss (naming no names!), the impact of the Yorkshire Ripper on both the local community and a whole generation and watching it happen again in the aftermath of Sarah Everard’s horrific murder. We also discussed Jennie’s midlife apocalypse that saw her walk away from a high flying corporate job and take a job …