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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 Talks ad B.

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Speaker 2: News Talks. He'd be twenty one two twelve on your Saturday.

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Speaker 2: If you're looking for a good read this weekend, just

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Speaker 2: in between all of the amazing sport, Katherin Rain's, our

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Speaker 2: book reviewer, has her recommendations for us. Now, Hey, Catherine,

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Speaker 2: morning Jack. Okay, let's begin with Our Holiday by Louise Candlish.

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Speaker 3: So this closely follows two couples Shoulotte and Perry and

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Speaker 3: Amy Andlinis, and they trade their London city lives for

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Speaker 3: a relaxing breaks at their beautiful holiday home and a

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Speaker 3: place called pine Ridge, Dorset. But things have taken a

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Speaker 3: really unwanted turn when their holiday homes become interrupted by

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Speaker 3: acts of violence and vandalism and damage. And there's this weird,

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Speaker 3: real war in pine Ridge raging against these wealthy second

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Speaker 3: homeowners and those of pine Ridge who've been left behind

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Speaker 3: in the hiles and crisis, and they can't afford to

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Speaker 3: live where they living. And there's this group of people

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Speaker 3: called not Just for August, meaning not just for the

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Speaker 3: August holidays, and the leader of this is a guy

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Speaker 3: called Rob and they're ramping up their campaign against these

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Speaker 3: London property owners when these two families arrive and the

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Speaker 3: real locals are having to make deal with these static

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Speaker 3: caravans in all year round, and you know, they haven't

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Speaker 3: really sort of done anything particularly bad. They've protests have

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Speaker 3: been low key and egging cars and a bit of

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Speaker 3: graffiti on walls, and then somewhere along the line this

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Speaker 3: has got really serious. And the start of the book

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Speaker 3: is situated around a house falling into the sea, but

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Speaker 3: most of the story takes place and the lead up

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Speaker 3: to this with the dynamics between the characters and becoming

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Speaker 3: increasingly complex. So you get this secrets and lies and

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Speaker 3: acts and criminal activities and lots of mistrust and hatreds

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Speaker 3: and tangled relationships and amongst it, and lots of greed

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Speaker 3: and envy, and you know, locals versus outsiders debate when

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Speaker 3: it comes to the property ownership. And because the story

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Speaker 3: is told over these dual timelines and multiple points of view,

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Speaker 3: you get to see all of the characters and their

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Speaker 3: secrets and flows, and the way that characters react so

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Speaker 3: differently from each other when they're in the same situation,

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Speaker 3: and that divide between class and chi narration, woman relationships

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Speaker 3: and just lots of intriguing dynas going on in this book.

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Speaker 3: And here it's really interesting the way everybody kind of

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Speaker 3: melts together or doesn't as the case.

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Speaker 2: Maybe ye are nice, Okay, very good. That sounds intriguing,

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Speaker 2: So that's our holiday. It's by Louise Candlish. Robin Harding

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Speaker 2: has written The Haters.

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Speaker 3: So this is about a school counselor called Cameron and

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Speaker 3: she's just published a new book and this is finally

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Speaker 3: her dreams have come true and everything is going really

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Speaker 3: well until she gets this message from an unknown person

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Speaker 3: and she tries to forget about it, and then she

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Speaker 3: gets this absolutely scathing one star review on her book,

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Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, there's loads of bad

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Speaker 3: reviews and online trolling starts to creep into her personal

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Speaker 3: life and it really crosses the line from angry reader

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Speaker 3: to feeling like someone and is out together it And

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Speaker 3: there's so many interesting and suspicious characters in this book.

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Speaker 3: But also on the flip side of this, her personal

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Speaker 3: life isn't going too well either, and her job and

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Speaker 3: her team aged daughter Eliza, and her new boyfriend Theo,

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Speaker 3: and even her longtime friends and then his husband and

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Speaker 3: his wife, and writers' groups and work colleagues, and she

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Speaker 3: gets to the point where she just doesn't know who

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Speaker 3: to trust. And thrown into this mix is this very

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Speaker 3: unlikable student in her professional life who she tries to

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Speaker 3: help but she just can't. And so you get this

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Speaker 3: book that's interspersed with chapters from Cameron's own book, a

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Speaker 3: book called Burnt. Also you get this clever book within

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Speaker 3: a book, and her book is actually about young teens

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Speaker 3: with problems, and in her mind, it's all fiction and

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Speaker 3: not based on any of her students and their problems.

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Speaker 3: And you get this very tense story about social media

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Speaker 3: and engaging with trolls and how horrible people can be

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Speaker 3: when they hide behind that ammininity of the Internet, and

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Speaker 3: her life feels like it's systematically broken apart, and it's

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Speaker 3: less thriller like than Robin Harding's previous books have been

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Speaker 3: and more this character driven domestic suspense novel and sly

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Speaker 3: reveals in secrets, and it's very tense, and you keep

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Speaker 3: turning the pages because they actually just really want to

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Speaker 3: know what happens next.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds yeah, that sounds great. Okay, So that's

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Speaker 2: the Haters by Robin Harding. Catherine's first book is Our

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Speaker 2: Holiday by Louise Candlish, and we'll make sure both of

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Speaker 2: those titles are up on the News Talks He'd Be

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Speaker 2: websites if you want to read them too.

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