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This episode’s pick: The Crash by Freida McFadden is one of her zillions of books. Her biggest hit is The Housemaid, which was recently made into a hit movie. This novel is about a hugely pregnant woman who crashes during a snow-storm is rescued by a scary yeti, but that’s only the BEGINNING of her nightmare.

In this episode, we cover:

The HUGENESS of Freida McFadden

Twists, wildly improbable plots and stupid main characters

The two main plots and how/if they related to each other

The need to move during pregnancy

Tuna!!

💋 And, of course, we rate it: Kiss, Kill, or Marry

⏰ Timestamps

00 – Welcome – Rach and Anthea have an Inner circle – and they are as surprised about it as anyone

1.19 – Rachael has NO aircon (Anthea decides to tread carefully for episode duration!)

2.08 – Rach reports an itchy nose. May be unrelated. This week’s book – The Crash by Freida McFadden.

4.50 Freida – what a show off. And The Crash blurb. Don’t drive in blizzards, people!

8.16 – Freida’s bio – another chance to show off – Anthea mostly impressed with her house by the ocean. Not the cat part.

10. 50 – Kiss, Kill, Marry!? Rachael’s vote possibly affected by heat stress..

12.24 – Rachael does NOT respect Tegan’s choices. (too dumb to live??)

14.23 – Tegan’s brother. Not awesome.

14.27 – Rach and Anthea discuss all the crazy in The Crash. It takes a while.

19.04 – Tax fraud and it’s role in modern relationships

20.29 – Why Sadie, the kid from next door will never unload the dishwasher

21.23 – Is Rach addicted to crack? The role of coincidence and contrivance..

25.31 – The Prologue DEALS IN LIES kind of. Who asked to hear from Hank, anyway?

28.09 – The importance of Point of View (and air-conditioning!)

29.50 – Anthea - pragmatist to the end. Would you TAKE THE MONEY?

31.05 – One Star reviews – always fun when it’s someone else!

32.32 – Freida – would RBD date her/read her again?

34.03 – Contrivance and character motivation, the TED talk.

37.36 – Stephen King – would have written the shit out of this! Oh, that’s right – he already did.

38.37 – What are we reading next? And will Rach get the air-con working? BYE!!

📖 Coming up next:

👉Next Ep we’re chatting to John Purcell about The Friend by Sigrid Nunez.

In April, we’re diving into Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy and guest author Mercedes Mercier will make us read The Only One Left by Riley Sager.

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