Summary: Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Lucy Ellman, author of Ducks, Newburyport released is September by Biblioasis (Biblio-aas-iz). Lucy’s novels include the autobiographical Sweet Desserts, Varying Degrees of Hopelessness and Man Or Mango. She is a contributor to The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement and lots of other prestigious publications. Later in her career she published Dot In The Universe, Doctors and Nurses and Mimi. Ducks, Newburyport is her longest and most novel novel, if it is a novel, which is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Welcome Lucy and thanks for joining us today.
