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Róisín Ingle

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The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

There's lots of different things in it.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

There's lots of stuff about toxic friendship as well, because she gets involved in this friendship kind of relationship where the person is a mentor as well, and she's a bit older than her, and it doesn't end well, that friendship.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

But...

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

There's one part.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

Lena Dunham used to have a big relationship with a guy called Jack Antonoff, who's a music producer who produced Taylor Swift and all those.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

And she was really heartbroken when she ended.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

So one night she finds herself out to dinner with Bruce Springsteen.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

As you do.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

And this is a little anecdote about that encounter because Bruce Springsteen has recently become very good friends with her ex, Jack Antonoff.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

So she says, and after an awkward perusal of menus, Bruce looked up at me with eyes so clear I knew he saw my secret garden and said, since we last saw each other, Jack has become very special to me.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

Reader, sometimes you see two doors in life, one marked normal behavior and one marked psycho stuff.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

And after a brief pause to really consider what's best, you choose psycho stuff.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

And that is what I did.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

That is what I have so often done.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

From my mouth came a font of verbal diarrhea that sounded something like this.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

I'm glad he's special to you because he promised to love me forever and that's not how he turned out.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

And I may not have been perfect, but I would have tried and tried.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

And now he shames me just for existing.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

And I'm going to write a memoir one day and I don't know how not to just call it.

The Women's Podcast
The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan

I hate you, Jack.