Whitcoulls Recommends: We All Live Here and The Sequel

We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes. Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A recently broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Not to mention a once promising writing career that is now in freefall. So when her real dad - a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep wanting to make amends, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, friendship, and what it actually means to be family. This is classic Jojo Moyes - warm, funny and highly entertaining. The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz. This very clever book is in fact a sequel, to one she wrote a few years ago called The Plot. They’re terrific literary satire. In The Plot, Jacob Finch Bonner is a failed writer, now teaching at a third rate college when he gets the chance to misappropriate the plot of a book from one of his students and becomes a huge literary sensation. Now, in the sequel to this, Jacob’s met an untimely end and his wife Anna is picking up the royalty cheques while deciding to write a book herself - because, how hard can it possibly be? And she also hits the big time until one day messages start accusing her of plagiarism and it’s clear that somebody out there knows all about her deep dark past and is out to get her. They’re great books - I loved them both.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.