A Good Read: Isy Suttie and Lolly Adefope talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
Harriett Gilbert talks favourite books with actor and writer Isy Suttie and comedian Lolly Adefope. Their choices include Meg Wolitzer, Ottessa Moshfegh and Carol Ann Duffy.
Harriett Gilbert and guests talk favourite books in an all-female line-up, including Meg Wolitzer's The Wife, Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen and Carol Ann Duffy's collection Meantime. Her guests are comedy actress and writer Isy Suttie, series regular on Peep Show and Shameless and author of a memoir called The Actual One. And comedian Lolly Adefope, the Observer's "rising star of comedy" whose TV work includes Loaded, Taskmaster and, along with Isy, Channel 4's sitcom Damned.
Producer: Becky Ripley.
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