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

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Speaker 1: from news Talk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Catherine Rains is our book reviewer on Saturday mornings on

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Speaker 2: news talks'd Be. She picks a couple of great read

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Speaker 2: through us every weekend, and she is here with this

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Speaker 2: week's picks. Now, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Catherine, Good morning Jack.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's begin with the latest from John Lancaster tell

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Speaker 2: us about Look What You Made Me Do?

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Speaker 3: So this is quite a dark story. It's going to

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Speaker 3: be a humor in it too, And it's about Kate

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Speaker 3: and Jack have been married for thirty years and there

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Speaker 3: I'm middle class couple going about their lives, friends, dinner parties.

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Speaker 3: You know, they tell those kind of inside jokes and

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Speaker 3: nicknames and references and nothing particularly remarkable about either of them.

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Speaker 3: And then Katie's LIFs turn upside down when Jack dies

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Speaker 3: and she struggles to come to to n with it,

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Speaker 3: and you know, after a number of months, she starts

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Speaker 3: to find out things about Jack that she didn't really

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Speaker 3: know about. And this is where a woman called Phoebe

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Speaker 3: Mull comes into the story. And she's just created the

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Speaker 3: TV's show which has turned out to be the next

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Speaker 3: big thing, a show called Cheaters about a man and

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Speaker 3: his younger mistress and uses a lot of this marital

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Speaker 3: material that Kate really recognizes, and she notices similarities between

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Speaker 3: her and Jack's lives and only things that they would

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Speaker 3: know about. And here it is on the screen, exposed

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Speaker 3: for everyone to see, and she just cannot work out

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Speaker 3: what's going on. And you get these chapters that are

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Speaker 3: also extracts of the film script and kind of give

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Speaker 3: you some insight into the TV series as well. And

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Speaker 3: it's told from two point of view Kate and Phoebe,

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Speaker 3: and it's this book really about revenge and with just

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Speaker 3: utter determination to ruin someone's life, whether they deserve it

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Speaker 3: or not. And so you get these relationships and responsibilities

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Speaker 3: and people are her pointing the blame at anyone else

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Speaker 3: instead of really probably taking account for their own actions.

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Speaker 3: But John Lancaster can certainly write a very good story

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Speaker 3: and that dark humour certainly comes through.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, this sounds really good. So let's look what

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Speaker 2: You Made Me Do? By John Langston. Next up, A

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Speaker 2: Far Flung Life by M. L. Steadman.

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Speaker 3: So this is set in the vast landscape of Western

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Speaker 3: Australia and back in nineteen fifty eight and this family

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Speaker 3: called them McBride family live on this place called Meredth

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Speaker 3: Downs and it's a sheep station and it spans this

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Speaker 3: unbelievableblele amount when you live in New Zealand, a million

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Speaker 3: acres and Phil and Lorna have three children, Warren, Rosy

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Speaker 3: and Matthew. And in the past the eldest son has

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Speaker 3: always inherited the property and the daughters Mary and the

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Speaker 3: second sons have more freedom, but very sadly, on the

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Speaker 3: way to the creek one morning, fill the father it

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Speaker 3: swerves to avoid this kangaroo something he's told everyone not

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Speaker 3: to do, and everything changes and those who left behind

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Speaker 3: are devastated. And then once this happens, it's just one

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Speaker 3: disaster after another. And in the second part of the story,

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Speaker 3: it moves forward ten years and it shows them sort

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Speaker 3: of coping but facing these new problems, and you get

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Speaker 3: this feeling of dread, and that kind of landscape also

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Speaker 3: plays into it with the fate and choices have made

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Speaker 3: out of circumstances and this burden that the people who've

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Speaker 3: left behind are carrying and their secrets that they choose

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Speaker 3: to cap to keep. And I'm deliberately not telling you

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Speaker 3: too much about the story because they don't want to

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Speaker 3: give it away because it's absolutely well worth a read

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Speaker 3: and it's so well written, and that landscape and the

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Speaker 3: you know, that vastness of it plays so well into

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Speaker 3: the story as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of solitude day and real remoteness of it,

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Speaker 2: all that sounds great. A million acres is the sheep

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Speaker 2: station in Western Australia and it's.

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Speaker 3: Just yeah, it's unbelievable, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, only in Australia. Okay, thank you, Catherine. So

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Speaker 2: that is a Far Flung Life by M. L. Steadman

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Speaker 2: and Catherine's first pick for us this week, Look What

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Speaker 2: You Made Me Do is by John Lancaster. Both of

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Speaker 2: those books, all the details for them will be up

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Speaker 2: if you're looking for the amazing pork apple and kale

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Speaker 2: at home. I recommendations for this week they're on the website,

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