We were, yeah.

We were indeed.

We interviewed each other.

And, um, our new novels both have re- reunions built in.

Um, so mine is based on a true story, which is that my great-grandfather, who had left England to be a homesteader in Canada-

Mm

... because, as Joanna said, reading is a solitary occupation, and usually done in silence, and, um- It's very interesting when people, uh, choose to read the same book at the same time, and it becomes very, very bonding 'cause you think, "Oh my God, have you got to that chapter where...

Oh, yes, and what..." And it's really, really tight.

Did Adam Silver vet this guy? Because once you get away with it in the NHL, don't fly in the NBA.

Well, I mean, JR, let's dive into that.

I wanted you to put the information out there so people can understand what we're talking about.

But let me just say this.

When you have a organization, a business, I don't think people understand.

Everybody wants the flashy CEO, COO positions and the positions that everybody looks at, president, vice president.

But the most important person in an organization is the one that balances the books, is the one that can find tax loopholes or whatever loopholes to whatever constraints.

They're built off numbers.

And at this point, he receives an unexpected letter from England in a handwriting he doesn't recognise.

Yes, so he is hearing at long last from his long lost daughter, who when he left England was only a toddler and was called Phyllis or little Phil.

She is now a young married woman called Betty.

This is my grandmother, and it's one of five portraits in the book of relatives I knew really well, people I loved.

and I've had enormous fun fleshing them out.

And Betty and my grandfather, Terry, eloped as a rather sexy young couple because they had an extra money and they wanted to save their families the silly expense of a great big wedding.

So writing to her long-lost father is one of the first respectable things she does, having eloped with Terry.

In great contrast to these bearded uncles, he's clean-shaven, he's athletic and he's overwhelmingly male.