Welcome to the World Book Club podcast.
I'm Harriet Gilbert and this month we're in France.
To be exact, we're in the legendary Shakespeare & Co.
Bookshop in Paris to talk about a most extraordinary, daring and original novel called Pigtails.
And here with us to answer questions about it from an invited audience and BBC listeners around the world, is its award winning author, Marie Dariusek.
Marie, welcome to World Book Club.
This bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, it's been here, I think, since 1951.
In this particular location.
It's a great bookshop.
You're familiar with it?
Yes, very much, yes.
You come here to buy books?
I do, I do.
I buy books here.
In English?
Yes.
Excellent.
And there's Notre Dame.
And you know what happened to Notre Dame?
We can see Notre Dame through the windows.