Jessamine Chan

Book Shambles with Robin and Josie by The Cosmic Shambles Network

Aug 25, 202200:44:19Comedy

We spoke to US author Jessamine Chan right after her novel, The School for Good Mothers was just revealed to be on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List. She chats with Robin about bucking expectations of what the book is a...

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