Edel Coffey

So it appeals to all that nostalgia in us.

But she just...

The appeal of a romantic comedy is so special because she writes about the deeper stuff about men and women, how they relate to each other.

She really sees them as men are from Mars and women are from Venus.

And we've forgotten about that, too, with political correctness, I think.

That's been sort of erased from how we can write about women, where there's really, really...

How men and women talk about each other still to this day in private, and I'm talking about funny stuff like, you know, we'll all recognise that and we can't really put that on screen anymore or in books anymore because it's considered on PC and actually it's...

it's truthful, and it's very, very funny.

Like, there's a line in Sleepers in Seattle where a group of them are around a table talking about a film, and Tom Hanks just delivers this line perfectly where he just says, sounds like a chick flick.

And it's really, really funny because it's just...

You know, it's just a guy saying what he thinks about this film that the women are really, really interested in.

And it perfectly sort of encapsulates how men and women think about each other's interests sometimes.

And it's not to say that, you know, men are better than women or all women's fiction is chick fiction.

You know, it's just it's it's the ability to make a joke and let it just be a joke, you know.

Yeah, not a wrong come, unfortunately.

Lots of death and murder and page turning.