We are back! Even a weird & confusingly specific increase in LC's normal job work couldn't keep us from finally getting our episode on Kate Solly's Tuesday Evenings at the Copeton Crochet Collective together! What do the girls get into? Well, we've got: - Crochet and it's power to bring people together - no seriously we've seen it - LC's Mam yarnbombs with her knitting club. It's serious shit - Racism, particularly as it pertains to people migrating from war or famine. A very timely issue in Ireland in 2023 - How having a bunch of young kids seems like the scariest thing in human existence ..read more

You guys - it's the last show of 2022! We were able to get one last book into the year - Kiley Dunbar's SPARKLING "Christmas at the Borrow A Bookshop"! Eagle-eyed listeners will know we've covered this book's predecessor in Series 6, and this second installment in the series is JUST as gorgeous! Topics covered include (but are not limited to): We love that it's not a Hallmark movie Christmas story. That would have triggered us too hard Jowan is a bad bitch and Saoirse absolutely would Magnus and Alex falling in love at first sight and what that has to do with the unbearable lightness of being ..read more

You guys, do you have any idea - any idea - how romantic and compelling Malinda Lo's "Last Night At The Telegraph Club" is? Seriously, I hope you have all had your coffee because this is a WHIRLWIND of fangirling - including, but not limited to: The super intense level of grossness McCarthyism introduced for immigrant communities in the US in the 1950s (and what is McCarthyism anyway?*) Contradictory expectations of womanhood - what people want from you sexually vs what they want you to be in public. Which, from our view, was even worse for the community of young women in this book How sexual ..read more

Oh people, this episode of CL4L was supposed to be all sunshine and rainbows, discussing Mhairi McFarlane's sparkling "Mad About You", but somehow it ended up with Katie getting super upset about something her bloke Dave said, but it all getting twisted and her thinking Chloe and the girls think she's dumb or something for being with him in the first place? It was super weird, but luckily, that was only one small, weird-ass part of the show  We did get to talk about lovely book related things, including but not limited to: The energy Harriet puts into not allowing her past to define her ..read more

Oh gorgeous humans - the girls are back and they are COVID free! (Note: there is still a slight sinus infection within the group but that's not what we're here to talk about is it?!)  What we are we're here to talk at length about Bonnie Garmus's luminous "Lessons in Chemistry" and man alive we have much to say Points of note include: Respect = Love. You can't have one without the other The idea of being with someone and never running out of something to talk about is goals A writing style and tone that treats inequality as the farce it is - more effective than a thousand angry monologue ..read more

Beautiful people, MAGNIFICENT people! We are back and we are ready to talk about the last book in our series on People What We Love Loads - Elaine Feeney's "As You Were"! Points of note include: Clee is quite taken with Elaine. Like it could be a problem These characters being some of the most compelling we've seen in FOREVER The toll that patriarchal abuse takes on a person - often turning them into someone doling out their own share of pain to others The indignity of illness Is taking a decision out of someone's hands or keeping secrets to protect someone a good or bad thing? And a healthy ..read more

Oh holy crap you guys. Today, we are not here to talk about just any book. We are here to talk about the new novel from the QUEEN of warm, affecting, hilarious fiction herself, MS MARIAN KEYES (thunderous applause) Not only are we talking a new Marian Keyes novel, we are also talking a return to our beloved Walsh family, and arguably our favourite Walsh - Rachel! When we last saw Rachel in The Mystery of Mercy Close she was happily married to sexy, tight-pantsed Luke and living in New York as a serene addiction therapist. But now she's back in Ireland and has had many changes in her life. What ..read more

Romance? Suffragettes? WWI? Mustard Gas? BTS's Kim Seokjin and the magic of his "Super Tuna" (not a euphemism)  I mean, if that's what we're talking in this month's episode on Susan Lanigan's "White Feathers" we better all strap in folks. To give the briefest of overviews, we've got: Ashling Murphy's murder and how we wish the other women killed last year (some as recently as 3 weeks ago) had the same public response What is a Bluestocking anyway "Finishing School" sounds like the most depressing thing in the world The Evil Stepmother - is this a trope simply because evil stepmothers ran ..read more

We did it!! We finally got our episode on Deirdre Sullivan's Perfectly Preventable Deaths and Precious Catastophe recorded and posted! I mean, the girls have much to share, with at least 60% of said sharing being on how much we LOVE Deirdre, seriously she is the actual best, we cannot. But if we were to try to quantify what it is we have to say in this episode, we've got: - Which do we like better – the humour or the lyricism? The question that nearly tears the friend group apart (not really) - Mamó being an actual beast and then the wise woman archetype in general - Predatory behaviour and ho ..read more

And we're back! In the second episode of Series 6 the girls get their teeth into Amita Murray's DELICIOUS "Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death" (available Oct 26!). The girls get into what rudeness is really, how childhood trauma infects present day relationships and how frozen custard might just be the answers to all of the world's problems. I mean if we want to get into it: - The beauty of getting to know a character right from the get-go (cold open optional) - Lots of mates vs few mates (small talk optional) - Seriously, frozen custard is the answer - We all can't handle how much we LOVE ..read more