Ella Berthoud, UK-based bibliotherapist and artist, conducts an on-air bibliotherapy session with Julie to prescribe a dose of literary medicine during these trying times.

The Novel Cure
An exuberant pageant of literary fiction. —The Guardian

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The Novel Cure, by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
How Proust Can Change Your Life, by Alain de Botton
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Olive, Again, by Elizabeth Strout
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Patterson
Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono
The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dunde
Rebecca, by Dame Daphne du Maurier