Cassie McCullough

We see them in the context of their friends, their families, of how other people view them, and even make it clear that it isn't all just about looking inwards.

They're looking outwards as well.

And I think that's very nicely done.

Can I just leap in here?

Now, I'm just listening to you talking about this book, and Jacqueline, I don't know if it's okay for me to bring this up, but I'm struck by some of the similarities with the book that you produced last year, A Year Beyond Words, A Year with Kenneth Cook.

Now, he was your husband, and he's the author of Wake and Fright, of course, who you were only married a year before he died, and your book is a reflection on that.

Gee, it must have been interesting reading this book.

I mean, obviously, title aside, there's a couple of similarities there.

Well, I hope you don't mind me asking you about it, but the similarity was so striking.

And I guess that means, even though it was a sort of accidental pairing, that somebody like you who's written about grief could maybe appreciate the work that Miller has done in writing about grief in fiction.

Sue Miller's Monogamy is published by Bloomsbury.

Well, families, relationships, loss, maybe even a few tears in today's books here on the bookshelf.

Thank you both for those readings of those books.

Fantastic stuff.

But before we let you go, we'll ask you for another recommendation.

First to you, Rahul Girola.

Can you suggest a book that we might like to put on our To Be Read list?

Wow, that's an opening.

That's a great opening, isn't it?

Yeah.