Juliette Fay is the award-winning, best-selling author of tender novels that raise questions of loss, regret, second chances, and the influence families play in life-changing decisions.

Hi, I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today, Juliette talks about her latest novel, The Half Of It, described by the critics as “an immensely satisfying page turner, perfect for fans of Josie Silver and Jojo Moyes."

Helen and Cal enjoyed one perfect night, and then 40 years of buried hurt.

They've got one chance to make it right. But can the past ever be fixed?

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Links to things mentioned in the show

Books Juliette is reading now:

The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes. https://www.jojomoyes.com/books/the-giver-of-stars/

The Exiles by Christina Baker Klein:

https://www.amazon.com/Exiles-Novel-Christina-Baker-Kline/dp/0062356348

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman  https://www.amazon.com/Eleanor-Oliphant-Completely-Fine-Novel/dp/0735220689

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Romantic-Comedy-Curtis-Sittenfeld/dp/0399590943

Where to find Juliette Online

Website: Juliettefay.com

Facebook @JulietteFayAuthor

Twitter, @JulietteFay

Instagram: juliette_fay

Introducing author Juliette Fay

Juliette Fay - tender and touching family stories

But now here's Juliette. Hello there, Juliette. And welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.

Juliette Fay: Oh, it's wonderful to be here. Thank you so much for having me.

Jenny Wheeler: We're talking about your latest book The Half of It. It's a perfectly executed second chance love story. And I wondered right at the beginning, how would you define it in terms of genre fiction? Is it a romance, is it a second coming of age story? How would you classify it?

Juliette Fay: I would classify it as contemporary fiction. It's not really a classical romance story in that there's a lot more going on. It's really about the entire life of the main character Helen Spencer, who's 58 years old, and it's about her relationships with her friends and her children.

There is a romance at the center of it, or a potential romance. But I like that phrase, second coming of age. I think that she's at a point in her life where she really needs to make a course correction and that's the crux of it.

Jenny Wheeler: It's interesting as the population in general is growing older, we probably have a little bit more time to regroup, and in fact, it becomes necessary if you're going to just keep on living to have a chance to regroup, look back on your life, decide whether there are things you would've done differently.

Take stock a little bit, isn't there?

Juliette Fay: Yes, absolutely. And one of the things that was so fascinating to me writing this story is that looking around there aren't very many books with main characters in their fifties and sixties. It's very few. I mean, you have to really dig.

It seems that there's books of characters in their seventies, eighties, and nineties, and then twenties, thirties and forties. I Feel like everybody is in their thirties in most...