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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
She's got a white Russian boyfriend.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
We don't like him, do we?
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
I mean, the relationship is very controlling and odd, but sometimes she even makes him a little bit more sympathetic and you think, oh, maybe not.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
And then it's back to, no, he's very controlling.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
And then in another chapter, another woman says, oh, well, he's a sleaze.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
And you suddenly think, oh, really?
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
Like that's a whole new insight into his behaviour.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
And I love that, that she often did that
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
sort of give you a 360 view of the character and made you sort of look at them and think again and reassess what you've already learnt about them.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
And I thought she did that really well.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
Absolutely.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
But it's a place of absent men as well.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
Like so many crucial men are missing in this story.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
They've died in military campaigns, there's been car accidents, there's been work accidents, or they've had to leave the peninsula for economic reasons.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
It's a really interesting environment that she's talking about and she does a really great job of bringing in lots of complexities and yet that doesn't overwhelm you.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
Instead, all you want to do is want to know more about these people.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
Well, I don't know if it's the same for Marla, but when you're writing crime, you tend not to read it that much because you don't sort of want another crime writer's story to bleed onto your page, so to speak.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
But I did manage to get a copy of Adrian McGinty's The Chain.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
Yes, which will be the big summer blockbuster, I think.
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
And I really have enjoyed Adrian's other series, the Sean Duffy series, which is set in Northern Ireland.