Sam Coley

really my cup of tea.

I'm just flicking through.

It's going to take me too long to find it, but I feel like I also either highlighted or underlined that exact same passage.

There's a lot of really cool description, which is just fantastic.

Yeah.

Yeah, you really got, I really got that inescapable sense from it, that it would just keep going on and on.

Because even throughout those eight years, those four sections of the book, the same themes

like you said, the kind of confrontational masculinity, the teenage horniness, unemployment, those kind of things just repeat section after section, chapter after chapter, and you get a sense that if the book was another 400 pages long, it would just be 400 more pages of the same thing.

I feel like the wind just got pulled out of my sails because Where the Fruit Falls is literally next on my to-be-read pile.

Well, Karen was actually shortlisted for the Ritual Prize in the year that I won for that very same book.

So I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for it.

I was so excited when it finally arrived.

So If Not the Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy, which I'm just going to recommend again, a book that I read recently,

recently and really enjoyed was Priest Daddy by Patricia Lockwood.

It's this incredible memoir about her and her husband who end up having to go back and live with her parents.

Her father's a Catholic priest and her mum is kind of a strange, hysterical lady.

She's very, very funny and it's about her growing up but also about her having to move back in.

And she's got a novel coming out next year called No One Is Talking About This and I'm really, really excited.

It's a laugh out loud.

Yeah, she's a great writer.