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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.

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Speaker 2: A'd be eighteen to twelve on News Talks, they'd be

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Speaker 2: Katherine Raines has two recommendations for our book picks this Weekday,

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Speaker 2: Catherine Jack, I'm looking forward to these this morning. Let's

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Speaker 2: begin with a new book by Geneva Rose tell Us

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Speaker 2: about The Perfect Divorce.

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Speaker 3: So this is a psychological thriller with quite a dark storyline.

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Speaker 3: And Sarah Morgan is married to Bob Miller and they're

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Speaker 3: having a child that they have a child together, but

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Speaker 3: Sarah catches Bob having a one night stand and immediately

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Speaker 3: files for divorce and custody of their daughter. And then

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Speaker 3: mixed in this the story as a corrupt cop and

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Speaker 3: he's responsible for some pretty disastrous investigation in Sarah's past

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Speaker 3: and now he's been arrested for DUI resulting in death,

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Speaker 3: and Sarah turns out to be his lawyer. And then

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Speaker 3: there's Stacy Howard and she's the woman at the center

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Speaker 3: of Sarah's divorce and she's vanished and Bob accuses Sarah

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Speaker 3: of being involved, and so the stakes are really raised

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Speaker 3: at this point. Is Sarah doing the manipulating or is

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Speaker 3: her ex husband. So you get this great domestic thriller,

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Speaker 3: and it's quite twisted with some very suspicious individuals and

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Speaker 3: some quite unhinge behavior, I have to say. And it's

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Speaker 3: written in multiple points of view, so you're never quite

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Speaker 3: sure where the story's going or who's telling the truth.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, lots of kind read hearings thrown in there,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, good story.

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Speaker 2: Cool. Okay, that's the Perfect Divorces by Geneva Rose. You've

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Speaker 2: also read Paris Express by Emma Donahue.

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Speaker 3: So this is based on a historical event, an eighteen

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Speaker 3: ninety five train disaster at the Paris Past train station,

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Speaker 3: and it captured at this disaster had been captured for

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Speaker 3: history in a series of photographs. But the story begins

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Speaker 3: at eight thirty am with an embankment at Granville station

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Speaker 3: on the Normandy coast, and as the train moves along

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Speaker 3: on its three hundred and fifty kilometer journey towards Paris,

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Speaker 3: you get the stations and the people that are boarding,

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Speaker 3: who are all imagined, but you get rail workers and

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Speaker 3: families and artists and writers to this whole a gambled

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Speaker 3: of French society. And then so because of that you

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Speaker 3: get a lot of commentary on different things that are

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Speaker 3: going out on the in French and Fiance at the time,

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Speaker 3: so about apperilyism and economic instability, and gender and class

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Speaker 3: and racism and the emergence of new technology. So these

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Speaker 3: characters as on the trainer, weaved into this narrative in

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Speaker 3: quite symbolic of the time. And as the train there's Paris,

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Speaker 3: the action becomes much more fast paced and the commentary

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Speaker 3: on the characters' lives becomes more intense, and motivations are revealed,

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Speaker 3: and author Donahue is really good at taking a piece

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Speaker 3: of history and winding it into a really interesting novel,

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Speaker 3: which is what you get with The Paris Express.

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Speaker 2: Cool. Okay, that's Paris Express by Emma Donahue. Catherine's first book,

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Speaker 2: The Perfect Divorce by Geneva Rose. We'll have all of

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Speaker 2: the details for both of those up on the News Talks.

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Speaker 2: He'd be website and a couple of minutes, We've got

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Speaker 2: new music for you by Samantha Fish. It's called it

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Speaker 2: a twelve.

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