Episode 14 - The Weekend

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!