It's 2020 and Jayne and Paula are starting the year off discussing The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, a stark and honest look at the decades long friendship of four women, now in their seventies, after one of them dies. Jayne also admits to a personality trait that made a certain book appeal and Paula shares a challenge one book set for her that saw her reevaluating her usual thinking.

Books they discuss:

The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

An Edited Life by Anna Newton

The Alcohol Experiment by Annie Grace

Dear Girls by Ali Wong

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

A Murder at Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

I Will Miss You Tomorrow by Heine Bakkeid

Royals by Emma Forrest

The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Netflix specials discussed:

Baby Cobra by Ali Wong

Hard Knock Wife by Ali Wong

Our book for February is Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe. Happy reading!