Ep 120: The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel

Anna and Annie discuss the Women's Prize Shortlist. Our book of the week is The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel. This is the follow-up to her hugely successful, multi-award winning pandemic novel Station Eleven. Inspired by the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, it centres on the fraudster's wife Vincent, who goes missing on a container ship. A New York Times, Newsweek and USA Today Most Anticipated Book of 2020, it's been described as 'a masterpiece' (NPR) and 'your perfect survival bunker read' (The Washington Post).   Coming up: An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo with Jenny Colvin from Reading Envy and The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin translated by Ha-yun Jung. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: [email protected] Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz