In this episode, we’re dispensing literary remedies for:
- The Sunday Scaries
- Post-Holiday Blues
- Incessant Doom Scrolling
- Email Rage
- Midweek Malaise
- Being Left on ‘Read’
Our prescriptions take us from the sun-drenched stillness of summer days spent with a grandmother and granddaughter on an island in the Finnish Gulf, to the unlikely companionship of a tea monk and a robot.
We’ll prescribe a transportive murder mystery as an antidote to doom scrolling, turn to the lost art of analogue letter writing to soothe the particular frustrations of email rage and discover how a theatre built from whalebone might be just the thing to lift a midweek slump.
Finally, we’ll explore a very particular kind of heartache – being left on ‘read’ – from the male perspective.
So, step into the apothecary, take your seat, and let us prescribe this week’s literary remedies.
