{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-life-in-books.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Flouise-hare-9b6yYvRt","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Louise Hare","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/c1f7074b-1a77-4fd0-b874-36e07b5a5765/6a7868c0-8f30-4c0f-90e4-bc7cba7e3d0d/my-life-in-books-1400x1400-podcast-cover.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/0a6be494-3f52-4e08-8289-6aea80e5cab5\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Louise Hare\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"\"This month, Red’s guest is Louise Hare, whose atmospheric debut novel, \"\"This Lovely City,\"\" was set in bombed-out, post-war London and placed a young couple from the Windrush generation at the heart of a tender love story wrapped up in a whodunnit.\n\nThe novel received rave reviews and Louise’s follow up, \"\"Miss Aldridge Regrets,\"\" was an eagerly anticipated treat that found its way into many-a-summer holiday suitcase. Set in 1936 aboard the ocean liner Queen Mary, it is a sparkling murder mystery, combining music and glamour with a probing exploration of race, class and pre-WW2 politics.\n\nJoin Louise and Red as they explore the Golden Age of crime fiction, jazz and Art Deco, and the social divisions and suspicions that underpinned it.\""}