Lace

Yeah, I mean, most, most of us had, uh, you know, even if we were too young to read them, our parents had, you know, Jeffrey Archer book on the shelf growing up.

Um, and, you know, it was in there with, beside Lace and Flowers in the Attic.

You know, it was all part of the, the staple of the Irish bookshelf in the '80s mostly.

Uh, but he was no stranger to success.

Yeah, absolutely.

So probably the kind of classic bonk buster, and we did a book club on this with some of the participants in our research, is Lace by Shirley Conran, which is the story of four women who grow up at Swiss boarding school.

One of them gets pregnant, we don't know who, and the book begins with the daughter gathering these four women who are now in their forties together and uttering the iconic line, which one of you bitches is my mother? and so we kind of get the history of these four women who all you know go on to be kind of high powered in their various fields and have a lot of uh messy sex and love affairs as well as lily the daughter who has it's quite a bleak story poor old lily this book is otherwise most famous for having a very upsetting sex scene involving a goldfish um oh gosh okay yeah You don't want to know where the goldfish goes.

Okay.