1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,693 Speaker 1: from news Talks at be. 3 00:00:12,773 --> 00:00:15,293 Speaker 2: Katherine Rains is our book reviewer. She gives us two 4 00:00:15,413 --> 00:00:18,773 Speaker 2: recommendations every Saturday Morning, and she's here with this week's 5 00:00:18,773 --> 00:00:21,853 Speaker 2: Get I Catherine, Good Morning Jack. So David bel Dargie, 6 00:00:21,893 --> 00:00:24,973 Speaker 2: a friend of the show, of course, is back, although 7 00:00:25,013 --> 00:00:28,613 Speaker 2: back in a funny way. He has re released The Winner, 8 00:00:28,653 --> 00:00:31,533 Speaker 2: which was originally published in nineteen ninety seven and has 9 00:00:31,613 --> 00:00:33,333 Speaker 2: just been republished. So tell us about The Winner. 10 00:00:34,293 --> 00:00:36,413 Speaker 3: Yes, it has been and it's a standalone novel, so 11 00:00:36,453 --> 00:00:37,973 Speaker 3: you don't need to have read any other books or 12 00:00:38,013 --> 00:00:41,253 Speaker 3: any other the series. So it follows twenty year old 13 00:00:41,613 --> 00:00:43,693 Speaker 3: woman called Louanne Tyler, and she's a mom, and she's 14 00:00:43,693 --> 00:00:45,893 Speaker 3: lived a pretty hard life and she's been in an 15 00:00:45,933 --> 00:00:50,053 Speaker 3: abusive relationship in this just endless cycle of poverty. But 16 00:00:50,133 --> 00:00:52,773 Speaker 3: she goes for this job and she's offered the chance 17 00:00:52,893 --> 00:00:55,093 Speaker 3: to be guaranteed to be the next winner of one 18 00:00:55,173 --> 00:00:59,053 Speaker 3: hundred million dollar National lottery by this name named mister Jackson. 19 00:00:59,373 --> 00:01:02,253 Speaker 3: And of course she knows that this is not above board, 20 00:01:02,413 --> 00:01:06,933 Speaker 3: and she decides that she can't she just can't do this. 21 00:01:07,133 --> 00:01:09,293 Speaker 3: And then actually she thinks about it, and things go 22 00:01:09,333 --> 00:01:13,013 Speaker 3: wrong in her life and more complicated, and then she 23 00:01:13,213 --> 00:01:16,013 Speaker 3: decides that actually she's going to give this a shot, 24 00:01:16,213 --> 00:01:19,973 Speaker 3: and things just go from bad to worse. She's fighting 25 00:01:19,973 --> 00:01:21,853 Speaker 3: for a life. She ends up running from this false 26 00:01:21,933 --> 00:01:25,053 Speaker 3: murder charge. But part of the agreement for winning this 27 00:01:25,093 --> 00:01:27,373 Speaker 3: lottery is that she actually has to leave the country 28 00:01:27,373 --> 00:01:31,173 Speaker 3: forever with this unlimited wealth and a very great future 29 00:01:31,213 --> 00:01:33,813 Speaker 3: for her young daughter. And she does that for ten years, 30 00:01:34,213 --> 00:01:36,853 Speaker 3: and she returns to the States. She's still wanted for murder, 31 00:01:36,893 --> 00:01:39,373 Speaker 3: and she ends up in Virginia in this beautiful mansion, 32 00:01:39,973 --> 00:01:42,173 Speaker 3: and she meets this guy, Matthew Riggs, who's kind of 33 00:01:42,493 --> 00:01:44,373 Speaker 3: on a down and out as well. And this seems 34 00:01:44,373 --> 00:01:46,733 Speaker 3: to be a reporter floating around who senses this scam 35 00:01:46,733 --> 00:01:48,773 Speaker 3: in an at national lottery and wants to talk to 36 00:01:48,813 --> 00:01:52,533 Speaker 3: her about a win. And life starting to get really complicated, 37 00:01:52,573 --> 00:01:55,253 Speaker 3: and of course the mysterious mister Jackson's tailing her as well. 38 00:01:55,813 --> 00:01:58,493 Speaker 3: And it's entertaining. There's lots of twists and turns. You 39 00:01:58,653 --> 00:02:01,333 Speaker 3: do have to suspend sort of boundaries of what's believable 40 00:02:01,453 --> 00:02:04,333 Speaker 3: or possible, But I can assure you it's a very entertaining. 41 00:02:04,373 --> 00:02:07,533 Speaker 2: Read right, So that's The Winner by David Baldarch. You've 42 00:02:07,573 --> 00:02:09,973 Speaker 2: also read On the Edge by Kate Horn. 43 00:02:11,293 --> 00:02:13,973 Speaker 3: So this is set in New South Wales in Australia, 44 00:02:14,133 --> 00:02:17,133 Speaker 3: and sixteen year old Maddie Marshall goes missing and she's 45 00:02:17,213 --> 00:02:20,693 Speaker 3: found three days later on a remote beach and she's 46 00:02:20,813 --> 00:02:23,293 Speaker 3: been murdered. And she was the only daughter of a 47 00:02:23,853 --> 00:02:26,973 Speaker 3: high profile politician and his guy called Jeff, and her 48 00:02:26,973 --> 00:02:30,933 Speaker 3: mother Faye. Of course they're understandably devastated by what's happened. 49 00:02:31,533 --> 00:02:34,213 Speaker 3: And Maddie's best friend was a woman called Neil Foley 50 00:02:34,373 --> 00:02:36,573 Speaker 3: and she was the last person to see her alive 51 00:02:36,773 --> 00:02:39,573 Speaker 3: by the lighthouse, and of course the local room and 52 00:02:39,613 --> 00:02:41,813 Speaker 3: mill just turns up the heat and she ends up 53 00:02:41,853 --> 00:02:44,773 Speaker 3: being bullied and when she finishes school, she leaves town 54 00:02:45,413 --> 00:02:48,333 Speaker 3: and fourteen years later she's a GP and she ends 55 00:02:48,413 --> 00:02:52,173 Speaker 3: up returning because her father, the town's GP, Robs, suddenly 56 00:02:52,213 --> 00:02:54,653 Speaker 3: passes away and so she returns to help her mom 57 00:02:54,653 --> 00:02:56,933 Speaker 3: and help organize the funeral, and she plans on getting 58 00:02:56,973 --> 00:02:59,613 Speaker 3: out of town as soon as she can, but actually 59 00:02:59,613 --> 00:03:02,813 Speaker 3: her mom begs her to stay and run the GP clinic, 60 00:03:02,853 --> 00:03:06,693 Speaker 3: and she really very reluctantly agrees, and it's at GP 61 00:03:06,813 --> 00:03:09,613 Speaker 3: clinic that she meets this woman, Sophie Warner, and things 62 00:03:09,653 --> 00:03:12,533 Speaker 3: begin to change. She uncovers new information about what might 63 00:03:12,533 --> 00:03:15,013 Speaker 3: have happened and what might have happened to her friend 64 00:03:15,373 --> 00:03:19,013 Speaker 3: and realizes that nothing is quite what it seems, and says, 65 00:03:19,133 --> 00:03:21,773 Speaker 3: lots of layers to the story. There's obviously the central 66 00:03:22,133 --> 00:03:25,533 Speaker 3: mystery that's going on, but there's family dynamics and relationships 67 00:03:25,573 --> 00:03:28,653 Speaker 3: and friendship and it's the kind of book that makes 68 00:03:28,693 --> 00:03:30,653 Speaker 3: you just want to keep reading one more chapter and 69 00:03:30,653 --> 00:03:33,853 Speaker 3: it's almost impossible to put down. And just when you 70 00:03:33,893 --> 00:03:36,333 Speaker 3: think you think you've got things worked out, there's a 71 00:03:36,533 --> 00:03:40,133 Speaker 3: very good twist and it completely shifts the story. Very 72 00:03:40,173 --> 00:03:41,653 Speaker 3: well written, good story. 73 00:03:41,653 --> 00:03:44,213 Speaker 2: Okay, cool, So That's on the Edge by Kate Horn 74 00:03:44,733 --> 00:03:47,893 Speaker 2: and Catherine's first book is The Winner by David Baldacci. 75 00:03:48,093 --> 00:03:50,093 Speaker 2: All of the details for those reads will be up 76 00:03:50,253 --> 00:03:52,813 Speaker 2: on the News Talks he'b website for. 77 00:03:52,853 --> 00:03:55,893 Speaker 1: More from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live to 78 00:03:56,013 --> 00:03:59,013 Speaker 1: news Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or follow 79 00:03:59,053 --> 00:04:00,653 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.