Madeleine Gray

And I think Diana Reid does a really fantastic way of fleshing out very like sympathetic yet deeply flawed characters.

I would say in terms of tone, She is very, I think, similar to Madeleine Grey.

She's also Australian like Madeleine Grey.

I would say there's like an element of like snark and humor to her writing that I really, really love.

Love and Virtue is very much inspired by the debacle of Caroline Calloway.

I feel like there are still people that talk about Sophie McIntosh as the author of The Water Cure and not much else, even though she's written three other banging novels.

And there are still going to be people probably that talk about Madeline Gray as the author of Green Dot and disregard her future work and all that kind of thing.

You know, similar examples.

I'm really interested to see what I think of this.

And here's taking on the latest from Pip Williams of the Dictionary of Lost Words fame and a new novel called The German Ward.

And best-selling novelist Madeleine Gray takes us to contemporary London and some, well, I think...

Quite awkward moments in the novel by Jem Calder.

I want you to be happy.

You just have to hold on for the ride and keep an eye out for at least one little cameo from one of his earlier characters.

And this is Chris Hammer's Full Circle, published by Summit Books.

Well, let's say g'day to our reviewers for this edition of The Bookshelf, singer, songwriter and actor Tim Rogers from UMI and The Hard Ons and novelist Madeleine Gray of Green Dot and Chosen Family fame.

Hello, hello.

But it held me up.

I read Madeline Gray's Chosen Family.

You did.

And this for me, this is probably the biggest disappointment of maybe even my year, considering the expectations that I theoretically had for this going in.

It just...

Madeline Gray's debut novel, Green Dot, is one of my favorite books of all time, probably.

It's so funny and excellent and wonderful.

And I felt like this was so dialed down.

So books that fall into this genre for me are like Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is one of these.

Green Dot by Madeline Gray is one of these.

Often there's like romance or dating involved.

Yeah.