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It is time to talk books and with a couple of recommendations for us. Joan McKenzie, Good morning, morning. Jojo Moyes is back with a new book.

It is time to talk books and with a couple of recommendations for us. Joan McKenzie, Good morning, morning. Jojo Moyes is back with a new book.

Yes she is. She's terrific and she's got a big fan club of readers, particularly women I would say, who just love the really warm I'm going to say homely stories that she tells, which are so realistic that sometimes you feel as though you could almost be reading about your own life. And she really nails it in this one. Our lead character is a woman called Lilah, who is an author. She wrote a book. She's been in what she thought was a happy marriage. Her book was all about how to keep your marriage alive, and two weeks after it was published, her husband walks out on her. So poor Lilah is embarrassed. She's a parent who turns up at the school gates, sees all the other school mothers there, knows that they're talking about her. It's all pretty miserable, but as I say, there's so much that you can relate to. And she has two kids who live at home and her stepfather is with them because her mother had died. So there's the family that's kind of drawn together from various aspects. And then her biological birth father one day turns up and knocks on the door. He's been an actor out in Hollywood. I think, probably a pretty second rate actor, but he's been out in Hollywood, and so he comes with a flourish and all of the drama into their family life, and she doesn't want him there, but he moves in. And it's about how a family can stitch itself together and get through things with characters who have all sorts of flaws and funny ways and very disparate different people, but families are what holds the center together, and in this book, that's what happens. It's really well.

Yes she is. She's terrific and she's got a big fan club of readers, particularly women I would say, who just love the really warm I'm going to say homely stories that she tells, which are so realistic that sometimes you feel as though you could almost be reading about your own life. And she really nails it in this one. Our lead character is a woman called Lilah, who is an author. She wrote a book. She's been in what she thought was a happy marriage. Her book was all about how to keep your marriage alive, and two weeks after it was published, her husband walks out on her. So poor Lilah is embarrassed. She's a parent who turns up at the school gates, sees all the other school mothers there, knows that they're talking about her. It's all pretty miserable, but as I say, there's so much that you can relate to. And she has two kids who live at home and her stepfather is with them because her mother had died. So there's the family that's kind of drawn together from various aspects. And then her biological birth father one day turns up and knocks on the door. He's been an actor out in Hollywood. I think, probably a pretty second rate actor, but he's been out in Hollywood, and so he comes with a flourish and all of the drama into their family life, and she doesn't want him there, but he moves in. And it's about how a family can stitch itself together and get through things with characters who have all sorts of flaws and funny ways and very disparate different people, but families are what holds the center together, and in this book, that's what happens. It's really well.

Done, and this is classic Jojo Moys like, if you're a fan, you'll be satisfied, Yes you will.

Done, and this is classic Jojo Moys like, if you're a fan, you'll be satisfied, Yes you will.

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Tell me a little bit about the sequel by gene hanf. Corelitz.

Tell me a little bit about the sequel by gene hanf. Corelitz.

She is a terrific writer. Some time ago on your program, I talked about a book called The Plot, And in the Plot we had a carriage called Jacob finch Bonner who was a washed up writer ended up working at a third rate college where he stole the plot for a novel from one of his students. You might remember that. So this now is called the sequel, and it is the sequel. And since that first book, Jacob has met an untimely death, and his wife Anna is busy picking up the royalty checks and having a very nice time, although she claims to be desperately missing her husband. But then she gets the idea that she might also write a book because now she has his literary connection. So she writes a book, which yes, it's the bestseller, goes to the top of the charts, and suddenly she starts getting messages from someone who's saying to her, we know that you stole this plot, and we are going to expose you, essentially, And that's just as she's the new darling on the literary circuit. But somebody knows exactly what she did to get there. And I think this is really well written. There's a very calculated insinuation of Anna into the literary life with these derisive snares at her former husband while she's enjoying the roots of his own misappropriation. So what goes around really comes around and Gene is also a screenwriter too. Yes. She wrote the book which then became the TV series called The Undoing, which starred I think it was Hugh Grant and great television. If anybody's missed it, it's worth finding it.

She is a terrific writer. Some time ago on your program, I talked about a book called The Plot, And in the Plot we had a carriage called Jacob finch Bonner who was a washed up writer ended up working at a third rate college where he stole the plot for a novel from one of his students. You might remember that. So this now is called the sequel, and it is the sequel. And since that first book, Jacob has met an untimely death, and his wife Anna is busy picking up the royalty checks and having a very nice time, although she claims to be desperately missing her husband. But then she gets the idea that she might also write a book because now she has his literary connection. So she writes a book, which yes, it's the bestseller, goes to the top of the charts, and suddenly she starts getting messages from someone who's saying to her, we know that you stole this plot, and we are going to expose you, essentially, And that's just as she's the new darling on the literary circuit. But somebody knows exactly what she did to get there. And I think this is really well written. There's a very calculated insinuation of Anna into the literary life with these derisive snares at her former husband while she's enjoying the roots of his own misappropriation. So what goes around really comes around and Gene is also a screenwriter too. Yes. She wrote the book which then became the TV series called The Undoing, which starred I think it was Hugh Grant and great television. If anybody's missed it, it's worth finding it.

Oh Okay, thank you so much, Joan. Two fabulous choices There We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes and the Sequel by Gene hamp Corralitz.

Oh Okay, thank you so much, Joan. Two fabulous choices There We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes and the Sequel by Gene hamp Corralitz.

For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen live to News Talks the b from nine am Sunday, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio

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