Author

Catherine Carr

Primary Agent

Emma Bal

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International Rights

Valentina Paulmichl

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Film & TV

Hannah Ladds

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Biography

Catherine Carr is an award-winning documentary maker, presenter, podcast producer and reporter with over 20 years’ experience in audio. Her work for BBC Radio 4, The World service and her own company – Pocket Productions – has taken her all over the world, talking to strangers in cities from Japan to the Mexican border and reporting on human interest stories, from child-trafficking in India to the refugee camp in Calais. Carr is the producer for Talking Politics podcast and is presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Exchange. She is the middle child of three, and created a podcast all about siblings – called Relatively – to finally get some attention. She is working on her first book based on her beloved podcast – Relatively, exploring how sibling relationships define us.

Photo credit: Daria Ahafonova

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Books

Featured Book

Older siblings are bossy, younger siblings always get what they want and only children don’t know how to share. Oh and don’t forget about middle children!

For many of us, our relationships with our siblings will be the longest of our lives, sometimes closing in on a century. Whether loving or fraught, competitive or codependent, these dynamics are integral in shaping who we become. Yet we might not nurture them the way we do our parents, grandparents, children, partners or friends.

Exploring the unique and complex nature of these bonds, Catherine Carr separates fact from fiction, revealing the truths behind birth order stereotypes, parental favouritism, unreliable memory-making, blended families, trauma, siblings with additional needs, estrangement, bereavement and more. Reflecting on her atypical upbringing, Carr asks us to consider our brothers and sisters beyond the labels allocated in childhood.

Interwoven with candid interviews with sibling pairs taken from her hit podcast, Relatively, such as Chris and Xand van Tulleken, Johnny and Lillie Flynn, Nick and Gill Hornby, Manni and Rueben Coe, and more

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Press and Reviews

“This brilliant book makes me understand how complex and varied sibling relationships are. I thought I was lucky to be an only but now really wish…”

– Dame Jenni Murray

“A lively and revealing book on the ins and outs of siblinghood. Ever attentive to the psychological sensitivities of her subject matter… Carr has clearly hit…”

– Spectator

“This book is essential reading: we all have siblings in our lives, even if they’re other people’s. It is our least discussed and most formative relationship…”

– Chris and Xand van Tulleken

“Whether you're a sibling or an only child, Catherine Carr's book will leave you wiser and feeling more at home in the world.”

– Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks

“In Who’s the Favourite, Catherine Carr offers a vivid and insightful exploration of the complex relationships between siblings. With warmth and clarity, she examines how sibling…”

– Fern Schumer Chapman, author of Brothers, Sisters, Strangers and The Sibling Estrangement Journal