Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

Sentimental Garbage is a podcast hosted by Caroline O'Donoghue about the culture we love that society can sometimes make us feel ashamed of. Formerly a chick-lit podcast, sometimes a Sex and the City podcast. We don't know the most, we feel the most.

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226 episodes
Updated Dec 19, 2025
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May 22, 2020 · 1 hr 25 min
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
This week we're talking about 1989's smash-hit debut The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. We talk debut novels, immigration literature, why so many women find Amy Tan in their teens, mothers and their daughters, food and how it travels, and why we...
May 6, 2020 · 1 hr 5 min
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
This week on the Corona Cast, Caroline and Ella discuss the ultimate smart lady holiday book (she's going to Split) American Wife! American Wife is a 2009 novel inspired by the life of Laura Bush, former First Lady and wife of George Bush junior. ...
Apr 29, 2020 · 1 hr 15 min
Valley of the Dolls with Ella Risbridger
CONTENT WARNING: rape, fat shaming, homophobia, literally all possible triggers a person could have. This week it's another special edition of Sentimental Garbage, where we talk about the novels that are getting us through the corona virus! Tod...
Apr 3, 2020 · 1 hr 13 min
The Changeover with Ella Risbridger
It's week two of the Corona Cast, and we're still stuck in our bedrooms. What better time to get into supernatural YA classic, Margaret Mahy's The Changeover? Ella and Caroline talk about going back to adolescence, magical admin, morally...
Mar 28, 2020 · 59 min
Brother of the More Famous Jack with Ella Risbridger
Welcome to our Corona Cast, a series where I invite my favourite people (mostly Ella) to record remotely on their favourite books, regardless of genre, sentimentality, or garbage-y content. Today, we're doing Brother of the More Famous Jack by Bar...
Mar 21, 2020 · 53 min
The Camomile Lawn with Kate Young
Hold steady everyone, there’s a WAR ON! Joining Caroline O'Donoghue is author, cook and currently in love with a set of twins, KATE YOUNG and today we’re talking about The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley published in 1984. Every summer, a...
Dec 19, 2019 · 1 hr 7 min
The Mitford Sister Christmas Spectacular with Ella Risbridger
Nothing says Christmas like freezing to death in your country estate while your sisters commit themselves to fascism and/or Marxist theory! Caroline O'Donoghue and returning guest Ella Risbridger discuss the Mitford sisters, the political climate ...
Dec 5, 2019 · 58 min
Rivals with Cathy Kelly
Rupert Campbell Black is back, he's fighting for a TV franchise in rural Gloucestershire (????) and he's in love with an Irish teenager! This week bestselling Irish author Cathy Kelly joins us to talk Jilly Cooper's Rivals. Here, the vas...
Nov 28, 2019 · 49 min
Why Mummy Drinks with Adele Parks
Why DOES Mummy Drink? This week we're talking about the Gill Simms blog-turned-literary sensation WHY MUMMY DRINKS. WMD tells the story of Ellen, a mother of two who drinks too much, swears too much, and probably likes her kids when she's not...
Nov 21, 2019 · 54 min
Set Me On Fire with Ella Risbridger
Regular guest and deep friend of the pod Ella Risbridger is back, but this time to talk about poetry! In her anthology SET ME ON FIRE, Ella gathers some of the best, weirdest, sexiest poetry that she could afford and dedicated it to MEEEE!!!!! We talk ...
Nov 14, 2019 · 57 min
Less with Phil Ellis
Is this the only Sentimental Garbage to win a Pulitzer? This week we talk to writer, editor and spiritual bottom Phil Ellis about Andrew Sean Greer's LESS, the funniest and sweetest novel to ever win a major literary prize. We talk about love, the...
Nov 7, 2019 · 53 min
Riders with Jojo Moyes
This week is the anniversary of our first episode, so what better way to celebrate than with the MOST requested book on our list - yes, I've received your emails, and we are doing Riders. Jojo Moyes talks to us about her horsey beginnings in Hackn...
Oct 31, 2019 · 54 min
The Fortnight in September with Andy Miller
Grab your bucket and spade and your flask of ginger beer, because we're taking a trip back to 1930s Bognor Regis! Today we're talking about RC Sheriff's The Fortnight in September with Backlisted's own Andy Miller. We talk family ho...
Oct 17, 2019 · 46 min
Sweet Valley High with Jessica Pan
Rev up your motorcycle and buckle in for your drink driving accident because the Sweet Valley twins are here and a trail of death and destruction usually follows them. This week we talk to author of I'm Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to C...
Oct 10, 2019 · 50 min
A Court of Thorns and Roses with Jennifer Cownie
This week, we're exploring Sarah J Maas's insanely popular A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES series with Litwitchure maven Jennifer Cownie. This fantasy-retelling of Beauty and the Beast lets us explore horny pagan rituals, blind worms, Stockholm S...
Oct 3, 2019 · 46 min
The Thorn Birds with Caroline Kepnes
We're back for season 4 with Caroline Kepnes, the bestselling author of YOU, to talk about the book that made her lock herself into an ice-cream shop. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough is a sweeping inter-generational epic that focuses on a lo...
Aug 29, 2019 · 1 hr 5 min
The Signature Of All Things with Gavin Day
It's the last episode of the season, and we're rounding it off with one of my favourite books of all time The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, with one of my favourite people of all time, artist and photographer Gavin Day. We tal...
Aug 22, 2019 · 1 hr 1 min
Rachel's Holiday with Louise O'Neill
CW: addiction, anorexia, bulimia. They tried to make her go to rehab... and frankly, it was a good idea. This week we're talking about the most anticipated book ever on Sentimental Garbage, Rachel's Holiday. Marian Keyes' modern classic ...
Aug 15, 2019 · 57 min
High Fidelity with Alan Maguire
What came first, the music or the misery? We invite podcaster Alan Maguire on to talk about Nick Hornby's classic High Fidelity, discussing relationships, break-ups, Jack Black's animal magnetism, performing your relationship for other people...
Aug 13, 2019 · 1 hr 3 min
Postcards from the Edge with Tessa Coates (with audiobook extract!)
To celebrate the release of the audiobook of Caroline's book, Promising Young Women, writer, podcaster and now audiobook star Tessa Coates comes to talk to us about Carrie Fisher's Postcards From The Edge, as well as discussing the unnerving...