Aoife Clifford

which goes along the lines of even in death, the boys were trouble.

I just thought, wow, this is the book for me.

I love it already.

So I really enjoyed that.

And then the other one that I'm also reading is Kokomo by Victoria Hannon, which I think you might have had on the show a couple of weeks ago, maybe.

Yeah, that's right.

And that has quite an unforgettable beginning, shall I say.

So I'm quite keen on that one as well.

Yes, for the exact same reason as Emily was, which was I read Ghost Wall last year and loved it.

I thought it was one of the best books of the year for me because it was such a tightly small, I mean, it's almost a novella, you could say, but it was such an amazing book.

So I was really

excited to read this one.

I haven't read any of the others, so I might be having a look for some of Emily's recommendations of what to read next from Sarah Moss, because I think she's wonderful.

I'd say that it's set in one day on a holiday park in Scotland on the banks of Loch and it rains all day and we follow six households from morning through to evening with one person from each household and the question is really how a group of people cope in isolation when everything that they'd hoped for isn't happening.

I started thinking about the book when we were

in Scotland in a holiday park and it rained all the time and at the time I was officially working on a much heavier and more scholarly novel and I became fascinated by these little worlds each of these damp little cabins held its own small world of a family and they were all next to each other but people weren't really talking to each other and I could never quite work out why they weren't talking to each other but I didn't talk to anybody either so clearly whatever it was I shared it

So there we all were kind of going around in some kind of strange orbit.

And that became so fascinating to me that I started writing about it.

Well, it was sort of interesting and almost what she was, Sarah Moss talked about in that little clip that we were listening to,

is that we are in these little bubbles and we're not just in the bubbles, we're in their minds.