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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 2: Twenty to twelve one News talks. He'd be Katherine Rain's,

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Speaker 2: our book reviewer, has two pecks for us this weekend,

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Speaker 2: too great Reads Gidde Catherine, Good morning Jack. Okay, let's

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Speaker 2: begin with The Good Mistress by Anne Tiernan.

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Speaker 3: So this story centers around three women, and they're at

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Speaker 3: a man called Rory's funeral, and Juliette sort of never

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Speaker 3: planned to be Rory's mistress, but she fell in love

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Speaker 3: with him, and then he died, and she always thought

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Speaker 3: that he would leave his wife, and so at the funeral,

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Speaker 3: she's standing at the back and not really quite sure

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Speaker 3: where she should be. And then there's May. She's this

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Speaker 3: incredibly celebrated novelist and life looks to be really perfect

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Speaker 3: for her, except that she has this very passive, aggressive

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Speaker 3: husband and two teenage sons and her mother's ailing, and

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Speaker 3: so her success to her starts to feel really hollow,

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Speaker 3: and she doesn't quite know where she's at. And then

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Speaker 3: she has an affair and she discovers the secret her

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Speaker 3: life starts to unravel. And then there's Erica, who's Rory's wife,

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Speaker 3: and Rory new things about her that no one else knew,

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Speaker 3: and so she's got these questions that she doesn't really

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Speaker 3: want to know the answers to. And the weird thing

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Speaker 3: is is that she ends up being friends with Juliette,

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Speaker 3: who is not who she expected. And so you've got

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Speaker 3: these set of characters who are really messy, who make

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Speaker 3: these choices and decisions, but they're interesting and are quite

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Speaker 3: vulnerable as well, and their secrets and misunderstandings and how

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Speaker 3: their past decisions have influenced their lives now. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's it's an interesting read, not a heart and soul

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Speaker 3: in it, interestingly.

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Speaker 2: Enough, Yeah okay, yeah, right, So that's The Good Mistress

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Speaker 2: by Antien And you've also read The Other People by C. B. Everett.

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Speaker 3: So this story has some really unique characters and voices,

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Speaker 3: and it really moves quickly, so after each sheph you

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Speaker 3: really want to know what's happened next. And it's quite

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Speaker 3: dark and quite twisty, and one of these sort of

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Speaker 3: locked room thrillers, a bit Agatha Christie like. So ten

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Speaker 3: people wake in this mansion surrounded by things from their

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Speaker 3: homes and then they're are unlocked and they go down

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Speaker 3: to the dining room and they meet other people and

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Speaker 3: they're suspicious and they're confused, and they don't know why

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Speaker 3: they're there, and they don't know how they got there,

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Speaker 3: and they don't know what they have in common. And

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Speaker 3: then they're told by this woman that a girl's been

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Speaker 3: abducted and they've got to find her in the next

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Speaker 3: twelve hours. And then they all start dying one by one,

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Speaker 3: and so everybody's a suspect, no one's safe, no one

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Speaker 3: can work out why they were chosen. And so you

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Speaker 3: get these different characters telling their stories and alternating chapters,

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Speaker 3: and so you get this really atmosphere that's quite dark

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Speaker 3: and claustrophobic because the characters move around the house and

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Speaker 3: they encounter sort of dark rooms and trap doors and

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Speaker 3: hidden corners, and it's quite strange as they encounter things

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Speaker 3: from their homes and they begin to forget life outside

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Speaker 3: the house and they lose that sort of sense of

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Speaker 3: time and reality, and as a reader, you're finding that

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Speaker 3: really unsettling as well. So there's a twist at the end,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, it has that quite creepy darkness along with

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Speaker 3: them as well. Good's psychological thriller.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that does sound like an interesting little journey.

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Speaker 2: So that's the Other People by C. B. Everett. Catherine's

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Speaker 2: first book was The Good Good Mistress by Ann Tianan,

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Speaker 2: and we'll put both of those book titles up on

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