Clare Stephens

And then I went home and cried.

I'm going to go with that.

You need to throw us a few breadcrumbs.

You know who wouldn't say that to me?

Simon Baker.

Oh, God.

I do like that you wrote in your notes on this, it's not an authentic social interaction if you're both living a lie.

Come on now.

That's the Claire Stevens credo.

Of course you're allowed to not like these books.

I couldn't understand where she was coming from on this.

I have read Strangers.

I have not read Yesteryear.

Strangers to me fell flat as a book for various reasons.

We're not sort of debating its merits here, but in essence, I didn't like

that it was the story of a marriage breakdown where I got no emotional complexity or sort of details of how the husband and wife interacted with each other prior to the divorce.

That's why I didn't like it.

Does that make me a bad feminist?

Because I felt that the memoir didn't have payoff?

The criticism I've come across of Yesteryear, which for the most part, I've just been seeing people say, read this book.