Series 3

This week the girls get stuck into Gail Honeyman's glorious debut "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine", a gorgeous celebration of humanity, connection and how beautiful and unique everyone's own normal can be. 
The girls talk:
- Oddness and our reactions to it - what makes an odd person and do we ignore them? Because it looks like we might...
- Family dynamics - supportive, toxic and everything in between
- Just how important human interaction and being your authentic self really is

This week the girls pull apart Charlotte Bronte's eternal classic, Jane Eyre. They go way over time because there are loads of excerpts they absolutely have to read, not to mention their discussions around:
- Jane's self-sacrifice and how that does or doesn't set her up to cope with her life of crushing disappointment
- Just how big a pr*** Mr Brocklehurst is (hint: enormous beyond quantification)
- Mr Rochester: Ugly sexy or that one ex that was way too into with you?
- The weirdest/most amazing Kindle typos ever...

Well gang here we are! This week the girls get their socially distanced heads around Susan Lanigan's new novel "Lucia's War" - a historical novel about strength, race, motherhood and what love can and can't achieve against the odds.

They go even further over time than they did last week but it was absolutely necessary the girls had too many ideas like seriously!!

This week the girls talk literary prize winning Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata - an ultra-modern, hilariously deadpan examination of what it means to be different, what it is to truly find your place and the cost of conforming to others' expectations. 

How do the girls get into such deep concepts you ask? Well:
- We start off with an examination of why Katie now wants BTS merch (oh you read that right)
- A detour through how Murata's gorgeously succinct prose reminds the girls of Ridley Scott's Alien
- How society accepts and rejects people like it's some gross wobbly collective of...wobbly stuff (the Alien thing might kept going here)...

Another fortnight, another book to tear apart with our girls! This week the girls dive into Delia Owens' acclaimed debut, Where The Crawdads Sing - a touching exploration of humanity and relationships both with people and the world around us, and what it means to be truly alone. 
How do the girls manage their second week of super deep topics? Well I'm glad you asked!
- We start off with Chloe being propositioned by some random aullad on IG (it wasn't JK, just so yiz are aware)
- Take a whistle-stop tour of the gorgeous language used by Owens throughout the book - which weirdly brings us to a brief intro to cellular biology
- Whether a book can have notions about itself - which might be the most Irish thing we've talked about so far...

This week the girls talk the incredibly charming Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell -  the lightest of our look at unusual heroines so far and (maybe as a result - we're very sorry Ms Rowell *sadface*) the most tangents per minute we've gone on in an episode to date.What tangents you ask? Well:
- We start off pretty strong with revisiting Katie's past as a Harry Potter fanfic writer herself (OH YOU READ THAT RIGHT)
- But then take a detour through sexy/smut fanfic and how Chloe justifies reading it (in fairness, she makes some good -though slightly unexpected - points)
- An impromptu haiku (though it may actually be a senryu on further examination...)

This week we've got a bonus episode in our series on unusual heroines, with the girls getting deep and meaningful about Michaela Coel's masterful series "Chewing Gum" - available to stream on All4 and Netflix.What do the girls get into you ask? Well -
- It turns out they know way more about Catholic Saints than you'd think. Yeah we don't know how that one came up either...
- Which naturally turned into Katie Murphy vs Organized Religion. The eternal battle wages on...
- But then we just devolve (as usual) into fangirling over how cool 14 year old Saoirse was and have a heated debate over how to say "Dorset Street" correctly...