Gaia’s Library Episode 11 - The Diary of Isabella M Smugge

Francesca Catlow (https://www.francescacatlow.co.uk) chats with Ruth Leigh (https://www.ruthleighwrites.co.uk) about her novel The Diary of Isabella M Smugge for Gaia's Library Book Boxes and Book Club. Blurb: Meet Isabella Smugge - as in 'Br-uge-s', naturally! Instagram influencer, consummate show-off and endearingly self-unaware. With a palatial home, charming husband and three well-mannered children, she is living the Country Life dream. Newly arrived in the country, Isabella is ready to bring a dash of London glamour to the school gate and gain a whole new set of followers - though getting past the instant coffee, terrible hair and own-brand sausage rolls may be a challenge! But as her Latvian au pair's behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre and a national gossip columnist nurses a grudge, Isabella finds herself in need of true friends and begins to wonder if her life really is as picture-perfect as she thought...