Catherine Raynes: The Perfect Divorce and The Paris Express

The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose  

Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine. It's been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress.  

  

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue  

Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 a young woman determined to make her mark on history boards the Granville to Paris Express with a bomb.  

With her travel the train crew and her fellow passengers: the men who run the engine, who have built a life together away from their wives; a little boy travelling alone for the first time; a wealthy statesman and his ill daughter; an artist far from home and in search of a muse; and another young woman with a secret of a very different nature hidden beneath the layers of her dress . . . 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be eighteen to twelve on News Talks, they'd be
Katherine Raines has two recommendations for our book picks this Weekday,
Catherine Jack, I'm looking forward to these this morning. Let's
begin with a new book by Geneva Rose tell Us
about The Perfect Divorce.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
So this is a psychological thriller with quite a dark storyline.
And Sarah Morgan is married to Bob Miller and they're
having a child that they have a child together, but
Sarah catches Bob having a one night stand and immediately
files for divorce and custody of their daughter. And then
mixed in this the story as a corrupt cop and
he's responsible for some pretty disastrous investigation in Sarah's past

(00:48):
and now he's been arrested for DUI resulting in death,
and Sarah turns out to be his lawyer. And then
there's Stacy Howard and she's the woman at the center
of Sarah's divorce and she's vanished and Bob accuses Sarah
of being involved, and so the stakes are really raised
at this point. Is Sarah doing the manipulating or is

(01:09):
her ex husband. So you get this great domestic thriller,
and it's quite twisted with some very suspicious individuals and
some quite unhinge behavior, I have to say. And it's
written in multiple points of view, so you're never quite
sure where the story's going or who's telling the truth.
So yeah, lots of kind read hearings thrown in there,
but yeah, good story.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Cool. Okay, that's the Perfect Divorces by Geneva Rose. You've
also read Paris Express by Emma Donahue.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
So this is based on a historical event, an eighteen
ninety five train disaster at the Paris Past train station,
and it captured at this disaster had been captured for
history in a series of photographs. But the story begins
at eight thirty am with an embankment at Granville station
on the Normandy coast, and as the train moves along

(01:54):
on its three hundred and fifty kilometer journey towards Paris,
you get the stations and the people that are boarding,
who are all imagined, but you get rail workers and
families and artists and writers to this whole a gambled
of French society. And then so because of that you
get a lot of commentary on different things that are
going out on the in French and Fiance at the time,

(02:16):
so about apperilyism and economic instability, and gender and class
and racism and the emergence of new technology. So these
characters as on the trainer, weaved into this narrative in
quite symbolic of the time. And as the train there's Paris,
the action becomes much more fast paced and the commentary
on the characters' lives becomes more intense, and motivations are revealed,
and author Donahue is really good at taking a piece

(02:39):
of history and winding it into a really interesting novel,
which is what you get with The Paris Express.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Cool. Okay, that's Paris Express by Emma Donahue. Catherine's first book,
The Perfect Divorce by Geneva Rose. We'll have all of
the details for both of those up on the News Talks.
He'd be website and a couple of minutes, We've got
new music for you by Samantha Fish. It's called it
a twelve.

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