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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks. AB.

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Speaker 2: Catherine Rain's, our book reviewer, is here this morning. Good morning,

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Speaker 2: morning Jack. So you've got two different options for us

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Speaker 2: this morning. Let us begin with the latest from FREEDA

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Speaker 2: McFadden tell us about Dear Debbie.

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Speaker 3: Debbie Mellon is a wife and a mum who writes

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Speaker 3: this Dear Debbie Advice Colin, and she's a very unique character.

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Speaker 3: She's also pretty clever and witty, and she's really worried

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Speaker 3: about her family. Her husband seems to be keeping secrets

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Speaker 3: from her. Her oldest teenage daughter has a boyfriend that

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Speaker 3: I don't know that you'd like your child hanging out

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Speaker 3: with her, and her younger teenage daughter, who's a soccer star,

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Speaker 3: just suddenly quits the team. And as these vices hit

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Speaker 3: Debbie and really quick succession, life spirals out of control.

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Speaker 3: She ends up losing her job about giving us reader

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Speaker 3: some radical advice that perhaps she shouldn't have, And you know, Cooper,

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Speaker 3: her husband has denied a promotion, and a daughter's facing

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Speaker 3: some blackmail, and the others dealing with her showistic soccer coach.

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Speaker 3: But Debbie is a completely unhinged and deranged character. And

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Speaker 3: this book heads into this very dark and addictive way,

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Speaker 3: and you know, it heads down this dark path. And

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Speaker 3: Debbie's the kind of psychopath that you just don't see coming.

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Speaker 3: She's the devoted wife, mother, housewife, and she seems to

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Speaker 3: have it all together, and she does everything with a

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Speaker 3: smile on her face, and she really you just don't

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Speaker 3: want to mess with her. And she meticulously plots revenge

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Speaker 3: against those who wronged her in her family. And it's

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Speaker 3: got lots of twists and turns, and there's those interesting

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Speaker 3: waters of justice and retribution and its real edge of

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Speaker 3: your seat stuff.

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Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. Okay, that's da dB by Freda McFadden. Tell

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Speaker 2: us about Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Niven.

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Speaker 3: This is a really different type of book. So it's

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Speaker 3: set in nineteen sixty four, and the TV show Meet

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Speaker 3: the Newmans is about this real life family, but an

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Speaker 3: on TV that will trade. Of course, is the perfect

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Speaker 3: and very funny family and they've been doing this for

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Speaker 3: more than ten years, but of course, behind the scenes,

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Speaker 3: everything is a completely different story. They're all hiding secrets

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Speaker 3: and the show's ratings have plunged and the sponsors are

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Speaker 3: starting to cancel and TV executives are pushing for them

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Speaker 3: to do something different and change the narrative, and so

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Speaker 3: it has this real, bygone era of course feel of

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Speaker 3: the nineteen fifties and sixties television show and their charmed existence.

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Speaker 3: You know that's coming to the end. And then fates

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Speaker 3: intervenes and dal who's the head of the family and

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Speaker 3: runs the show, ends up in this car crash, and Dinah,

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Speaker 3: who's the mum who's always just been this perfect housewife.

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Speaker 3: I's this interesting news reporter, a woman called Juliet Dunn,

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Speaker 3: and she's very young and outspoken to help her write

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Speaker 3: this final episode. But the show and they have very

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Speaker 3: different ideas of what it means to be a woman

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Speaker 3: in the sixties, and you know that she Dinah's trying

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Speaker 3: to work out if they can bring themselves in wooden

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Speaker 3: times or will show be canceled. And behind the scenes,

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Speaker 3: the oldest son is hiding a secret about his love life,

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Speaker 3: and the youngest son, who's a rock and roll star,

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Speaker 3: has got himself into a lot of trouble, and there's

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Speaker 3: all this society pressures, and there's it's about race and

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Speaker 3: expectations on women and feminism and all sorts of things.

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Speaker 3: But the story itself is really interesting and charming and

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Speaker 3: very deeply human.

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Speaker 2: Oh great, this is really good. So let's meet the

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Speaker 2: Newman's by Jennifer Nivin. Your first book for us is

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Speaker 2: Dear Debbie by FRIEDA. Mcfadd, and we'll make sure both

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Speaker 2: of those are on the News Talks EDBE website. You

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Speaker 2: have a fantastic weekend.

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