Andrea Mara

which is a really sad coming of age story set in Northern Ireland that follows a friendship between two boys and, you know, a friendship that's informed by tragedy.

And I really couldn't put that down and nor could I. Andrea Mara is such a nice girl, which even mentions Greystones.

I much preferred those two, but I did enjoy Knife River as well.

Yeah, that's really interesting.

great.

And then another one I'll give a shout out to, which is not that, well, I think the TV was out last night, who I think is an incredible writer, Andrea Mara, but all her fault.

So I think great book.

But the TV adaptation as well, because sometimes the TV adaptations aren't, as good as the book.

But, um, everybody's different in their own timing.

What we did for timing was the first, uh, the first book that we read was It Should Have Been You by Andrea Mara, and so it's only about 370 pages, so we split it dead in the middle.

We were like, "We're gonna stop at this chapter." Now, did some people follow the rules? Yes.

Did others not? Yes.

I

just thought as you go along, this is going to get, I know we've heard other authors and Andrea Mara and people like that say, it's it doesn't get easier I mean it gets harder to come up with some new characters and new ideas and plots and all that but it's not even that it's the sitting down and thinking oh jeez I don't know if I can do this and you would think five books in you kind of get started yeah I can't more now which is the problem

you know

more

They did.

And then Peacock had All Her Fault adapted from Andrea Mara's 2021 novel.

which was so good at orchestrating that suburban paranoia around a missing child.

Masterful.