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Speaker 1: You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks atb.

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Speaker 2: Catherine Rains has here to recommend her two reads for

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Speaker 2: this weekend. Hey, Catherine, morning, dach. Okay, let's start off

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Speaker 2: with the Act of Disappearing by Nathan Gower.

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Speaker 3: So, Julia White's a bartender and a struggling author, and

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Speaker 3: her mother's just died. And while she's at work, this

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Speaker 3: renowned photographer, a guy called Jonathan Asta, approaches her with

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Speaker 3: this never been seen published photo from the six nineteen

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Speaker 3: sixties of a woman jumping off a bridge with a

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Speaker 3: baby in her arms, and he wants Julia to investigate

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Speaker 3: what happened and write a book that tells about this

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Speaker 3: mystery woman's story. And Julia's kind of think her own

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Speaker 3: prospects are looking particularly bleak there. She had this very

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Speaker 3: lucrative first book launch and there's no real clear jobs

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Speaker 3: after that, and you know, she's broke while she's tending

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Speaker 3: these bars, as she's trying to pay off her mother's

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Speaker 3: looming medical bills, and now she's grappling with this life

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Speaker 3: changing event in her own life, and she finds really

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Speaker 3: no reason to hold back from dalving further into what's

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Speaker 3: behind this photo and how the story progresses is there's

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Speaker 3: dual timelines that shift between her investigative efforts in the

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Speaker 3: present day as she hones on on the truth behind

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Speaker 3: the photograph and the viewpoints from those in nineteen sixty

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Speaker 3: three associated with the Woman from the Bridge. And it's

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Speaker 3: this very emotional journey that takes you from the present

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Speaker 3: day Brooklyn in the nineteen sixties Kentucky and Multiple Steroids

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Speaker 3: are storylines that are developing, lots of characters, and those

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Speaker 3: layers really mold together really well, and you get secrets

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Speaker 3: upon secrets and mystery and mental health struggles, and you know,

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Speaker 3: lots about family and what it means to be a

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Speaker 3: mum and some quite serious themes in the book as well.

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Speaker 3: But you find yourself disappearing into the story and completely

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Speaker 3: engrossed and engage with where these characters are going. And

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe a couple of tears along the way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, cool, that's the act of disappearing by Nathan Gower.

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Speaker 2: You've also read I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay.

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Speaker 3: Just another one day morning at school and this English teacher,

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Speaker 3: a guy called Richard Boyle, is mid Lesson when he

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Speaker 3: spots someone running towards the school entrance wearing a suicide vest,

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Speaker 3: and he tells the class to lockdown and called nine

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Speaker 3: to one one and he rushes to the front door,

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Speaker 3: and there's this student and next student a guy called

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Speaker 3: Mark Ladru who's intent on causing maximum harm. And what

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Speaker 3: occurs next puts Richard completely in this spotlight, and this

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Speaker 3: dramatic day is really a catalyst for a sequence of

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Speaker 3: events that he finds himself center of. So at first

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Speaker 3: he's hailed as a hero, and you know, Will would

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Speaker 3: have events, But then there's lawsuits from Mark's parents and

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Speaker 3: blackmail from another student, and scrutiny over the choice of

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Speaker 3: reading material he gives his students and has he himself

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Speaker 3: delves deep into Mark's secrets and why he might have

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Speaker 3: done what he's done. There's this drug gang and threatening

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Speaker 3: the town's piece as well, and his own marriage is

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Speaker 3: faltering and his friends trust is wavering, and all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden he realizes he's a prime suspect. So you

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Speaker 3: get this very narrative, which is like in short chapters

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Speaker 3: from multiple perspectives, including Richard's own, and it's suspenseful and paced,

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Speaker 3: and you know, some heavy topics and drug use and

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Speaker 3: gun violence and dysfunctional family issues, but it's an attention

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Speaker 3: grabbing psychological thriller with lots of twists and turns in

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Speaker 3: a very thought provoking plot.

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, keep your turning the pages because you just

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Speaker 3: want to know what happens next.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's always a good sign. Okay. Cool. That's I

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Speaker 2: Will Ruin You by Lindward Barclay, Catherine's first book, The

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Speaker 2: Act of Disappearing by Nathan Gower. Both of those are,

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Speaker 2: of course, on the news Talks He'd Be website.

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