On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, are tired and cranky but still manage to preamble only briefly in the murk of COVID-19 and bad segues before getting to the point of it all. They think.
The books up for discussion this month are two novels: Devotion by Hannah Kent [5:20] and The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan [35:20].
The review of The School for Good Mothers that Kirstyn mentioned was this one by Ilana Masad in The Washington Post.
If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 109:30 for brief final remarks.
Next month, the two books on the slab will be:
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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Episode 100: The Book of Accidents | Conquest
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