1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at be. 3 00:00:12,773 --> 00:00:15,613 Speaker 2: Catherine Rains is here with her book picks for this weekend, 4 00:00:16,133 --> 00:00:19,733 Speaker 2: and she's chosen My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney as 5 00:00:19,773 --> 00:00:22,413 Speaker 2: her first read for this weekend. Get I Catherine, Good 6 00:00:22,413 --> 00:00:23,893 Speaker 2: Morning Jack. Tell us about it. 7 00:00:25,013 --> 00:00:27,773 Speaker 3: So this is a really interesting cast of characters. So 8 00:00:27,813 --> 00:00:30,853 Speaker 3: you've got Eden Fox and she's a wife and wife 9 00:00:30,893 --> 00:00:33,653 Speaker 3: of Harrison Wolf and they've just moved into this new 10 00:00:33,773 --> 00:00:37,253 Speaker 3: home called Spyglass in a place called Hope Falls. And 11 00:00:37,413 --> 00:00:39,733 Speaker 3: Eden's husband is Harrison and he's a founder of this 12 00:00:39,813 --> 00:00:43,813 Speaker 3: tech company that can unusually tell you the date of 13 00:00:43,973 --> 00:00:47,213 Speaker 3: your death. And there's a woman called Olivia Bird Birdie 14 00:00:47,253 --> 00:00:50,693 Speaker 3: for short, and she lived in London and she'd actually 15 00:00:50,693 --> 00:00:54,053 Speaker 3: inherited the house that Eden and Harrison now live in 16 00:00:54,093 --> 00:00:56,533 Speaker 3: from her grandmother before she sold it. And then there's 17 00:00:56,573 --> 00:00:58,853 Speaker 3: a sergeant in the local town, a guy called Luke Carter, 18 00:00:59,413 --> 00:01:01,813 Speaker 3: and it's only a one man the police department in 19 00:01:01,853 --> 00:01:04,253 Speaker 3: Hope Falls, and he's young and ambitious, but he just 20 00:01:04,493 --> 00:01:07,453 Speaker 3: can't seem to get ahead. So this book is set 21 00:01:07,493 --> 00:01:11,053 Speaker 3: in the Cornwall Cornwall coast on this beautiful house on 22 00:01:11,093 --> 00:01:14,893 Speaker 3: the hill. And six months earlier, Bertie had discovered two 23 00:01:14,973 --> 00:01:18,573 Speaker 3: things in her life. First that she's inherited this house 24 00:01:18,773 --> 00:01:22,013 Speaker 3: spyglass from her grandmother and she can't quite wrap her 25 00:01:22,053 --> 00:01:24,973 Speaker 3: head around this, and she's very astounded by this beautiful estate. 26 00:01:25,053 --> 00:01:28,093 Speaker 3: And so she arrives and opens the door and knocking 27 00:01:28,133 --> 00:01:30,733 Speaker 3: there and expecting someone to be there, and no one is. 28 00:01:31,213 --> 00:01:32,773 Speaker 3: And the other thing is is that she has a 29 00:01:32,853 --> 00:01:36,093 Speaker 3: terminal illness and she comes across this London clinic it's 30 00:01:36,093 --> 00:01:38,933 Speaker 3: a little bit dodgy, claiming to predict a person's state 31 00:01:38,973 --> 00:01:41,933 Speaker 3: of death, including her own. And then the story jumps 32 00:01:41,933 --> 00:01:44,373 Speaker 3: six months later and Eden Fox has decided to go 33 00:01:44,413 --> 00:01:46,293 Speaker 3: and for a run, and so she's left everything behind 34 00:01:46,293 --> 00:01:49,213 Speaker 3: in this beautiful new house, and you know, she's kind 35 00:01:49,213 --> 00:01:51,453 Speaker 3: of hoping that moving to this place, hope falls this 36 00:01:51,493 --> 00:01:53,853 Speaker 3: will be a new beginning for her and her husband Harrison. 37 00:01:54,253 --> 00:01:56,453 Speaker 3: But when she gets home and she tries to open 38 00:01:56,453 --> 00:01:59,333 Speaker 3: the door, it won't work, and so she knocks on 39 00:01:59,413 --> 00:02:02,853 Speaker 3: the door and her husband doesn't answer. But it's this 40 00:02:02,893 --> 00:02:05,933 Speaker 3: woman that looks like her and conclaims to be her, 41 00:02:06,093 --> 00:02:09,213 Speaker 3: and of course she's thrown into this confusion and she 42 00:02:09,253 --> 00:02:11,413 Speaker 3: talks to people, and she reaches out because there's this 43 00:02:11,453 --> 00:02:14,093 Speaker 3: other woman who looks exactly like her, pretending to be her, 44 00:02:14,533 --> 00:02:17,493 Speaker 3: but actual fact, it's everybody thinks that she's the line 45 00:02:17,533 --> 00:02:19,933 Speaker 3: and an unstable one and can't work out what's going 46 00:02:19,933 --> 00:02:23,573 Speaker 3: around on. So it's this great psychological thriller told from 47 00:02:24,013 --> 00:02:26,453 Speaker 3: points of view of Eden and Birdie and Harrison and 48 00:02:26,493 --> 00:02:29,453 Speaker 3: the Sergeant, and lots of plots, twists and suspense and 49 00:02:29,573 --> 00:02:32,493 Speaker 3: drama and red hearings and a story that ends in 50 00:02:32,533 --> 00:02:34,253 Speaker 3: a completely unexpected direction. 51 00:02:34,813 --> 00:02:38,333 Speaker 2: Very interesting, Okay, cool. So that is My Husband's Wife 52 00:02:38,333 --> 00:02:42,093 Speaker 2: by Alice Feeni. Next up, Red Dawn Over China by 53 00:02:42,133 --> 00:02:42,933 Speaker 2: Frank Dakota. 54 00:02:44,053 --> 00:02:47,053 Speaker 3: So Frind Dakota's written this history of China and it's 55 00:02:47,293 --> 00:02:51,053 Speaker 3: a revisionist history. So he's looking at the foundation of 56 00:02:51,133 --> 00:02:54,293 Speaker 3: communism and the Chinese Communist Party in nineteen twenty one 57 00:02:54,773 --> 00:02:58,093 Speaker 3: till it's eventual takeover in the Chinese Civil War in 58 00:02:58,173 --> 00:03:03,293 Speaker 3: nineteen forty nine and what entails really and what he's 59 00:03:03,333 --> 00:03:06,613 Speaker 3: with his research. He's found this pursuit of power is 60 00:03:06,693 --> 00:03:09,533 Speaker 3: a much more traditional sense than rather the narrative that 61 00:03:09,613 --> 00:03:12,573 Speaker 3: exists around it, with you know, kind of the abolishing 62 00:03:12,573 --> 00:03:15,573 Speaker 3: of the class system and bringing the people around and 63 00:03:15,733 --> 00:03:20,453 Speaker 3: how much influence Moscow had. So in nineteen twenty one 64 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:22,813 Speaker 3: under the beginning, and there's you know, lots of guidance 65 00:03:22,893 --> 00:03:25,733 Speaker 3: from Moscow, and over the next decade, the Communist Party 66 00:03:25,773 --> 00:03:29,333 Speaker 3: with this very beautif brutal force and taking suathes of 67 00:03:30,173 --> 00:03:34,693 Speaker 3: territory in the countryside, you know, and committing some awful atrocities, 68 00:03:34,813 --> 00:03:38,213 Speaker 3: and the local people were reduced into servitude and you know, 69 00:03:38,253 --> 00:03:41,493 Speaker 3: their belief in what was going on, and economies were decimated, 70 00:03:41,533 --> 00:03:46,053 Speaker 3: and in fact they were vastly unpopular, but there was 71 00:03:46,093 --> 00:03:49,213 Speaker 3: a whole heap of outside influencers that really changed the 72 00:03:49,253 --> 00:03:52,053 Speaker 3: direction of what happened. And the millions of dollars of 73 00:03:52,093 --> 00:03:56,973 Speaker 3: support of the Soviet Union and the troops invading Mantura 74 00:03:57,013 --> 00:04:00,573 Speaker 3: in nineteen forty five, which allowed, you know, the Communist 75 00:04:00,573 --> 00:04:05,173 Speaker 3: Party to come to fruition really and you know, it 76 00:04:05,253 --> 00:04:08,653 Speaker 3: wasn't really about mal leadership. It was the delivery of 77 00:04:08,813 --> 00:04:12,733 Speaker 3: Moscow by millions of dollars of ammunition and military support 78 00:04:12,773 --> 00:04:15,693 Speaker 3: and all sorts of things. And the author's worked his 79 00:04:15,773 --> 00:04:20,013 Speaker 3: way through Chinese central and provincial archives and volumes of 80 00:04:20,213 --> 00:04:23,093 Speaker 3: party documents that have found their way into Hong Kong, 81 00:04:23,573 --> 00:04:26,373 Speaker 3: and those documents mostly date from nineteen thirty one when 82 00:04:26,373 --> 00:04:29,893 Speaker 3: they started to establish in the Chinese countryside. And it's 83 00:04:30,053 --> 00:04:34,013 Speaker 3: fascinating because there's a range of Chinese information, but there's 84 00:04:34,013 --> 00:04:37,893 Speaker 3: what foreign newspapers and Western mister news were reporting as well, 85 00:04:37,973 --> 00:04:40,773 Speaker 3: and it's just fascinating and a completely different look at 86 00:04:40,813 --> 00:04:43,693 Speaker 3: how the CCP came about in its origin story. And 87 00:04:43,733 --> 00:04:46,773 Speaker 3: he's just pieced together what's actually a really interesting history 88 00:04:47,133 --> 00:04:48,933 Speaker 3: and their entry into eventual power. 89 00:04:50,333 --> 00:04:52,533 Speaker 2: Superb that sounds great, sounds like a bit of me 90 00:04:52,613 --> 00:04:55,813 Speaker 2: that one read dawn Over Times by Frank Dakota is 91 00:04:55,853 --> 00:04:59,573 Speaker 2: that one my husband's wife by Alice Feeny was Catherine's 92 00:04:59,573 --> 00:05:01,133 Speaker 2: first back in. Both of those will be on the 93 00:05:01,133 --> 00:05:03,773 Speaker 2: news talk z'd the website of course. Thank you so much, Catherine. 94 00:05:03,853 --> 00:05:05,853 Speaker 2: We will catch again very soon for. 95 00:05:05,893 --> 00:05:08,973 Speaker 1: More from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. 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