Join your two favourite Crones as they face another Book vsMovie battle!

This episode is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson vs the BBC Dramatisation

Which one is better? Will they agree?

Come listen and find out

Book Stats:

Synopsis: What if you had the chance to live yourlife again and again, until you finally got it right?

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born anddies before she can take her first breath.

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.

What if there were second chances? And third chances? Infact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?

Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through theturbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, she finds warmth even in life’s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here is Kate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

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Synopsis: Award-winning playwright Bash Doran, knownfor "The Looming Tower" and "Traitors," has created anadaptation of Kate Atkinson's celebrated novel "Life After Life." The series tells the story of Ursula Todd, who dies one night in 1910 before she can draw her first breath. On that same night, however, she is reborn and survives. Time and time again, living and dying in different circumstances, Ursula is reborn into new, alternative lives. The story follows Ursula as she navigates each life through a critical era that spans two world wars, an encounter with Hitler and other major life events.

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Annette and Chell tackle the deliciously wicked challenge ofturning villains into even more dastardly versions of themselves. Join the Crones as they explore creative ways to make literary antagonists even more compelling, horrifying, or downright iconic.

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From a free-spirited pipe-smoking character in Mapp andLucia, to a nosy neighbour misinterpreting spooky sounds in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart—the hilarious possibilities are endless! Annette and Chell share personal picks, wild suggestions, and plenty of cheeky banter.

Expect a mix of comedy, literary reflections, and clever twists on classic stories.

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Dive into the eerie world of Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives as we unravel the chilling tale of suburban perfection gone wry. This podcast explores the stark contrasts between the original 1972 novel and its cinematic adaptations—the suspenseful 1975 film and the satirical 2004 remake.

Join us with special guest Tab, for thought-provoking discussions on feminism, societal norms, and the impact of storytelling across mediums.

And of course, find out which one we think is better!!

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Synopsis: Joanna Eberhart, a talented photographer, moves with her family to the idyllic suburban town of Stepford, Connecticut. At first, the town seems perfect, but Joanna soon notices something unsettling about the women of Stepford—they are impossibly beautiful, submissive, andobsessed with housework. As her friends begin to transform into docile housewives, Joanna uncovers a horrifying secret: the men of Stepford have sinister plans to replace their wives with lifelike robots.

The novel is a chilling exploration of gender roles and societal expectations.

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Synopsis: Joanna Eberhart, a young wife and aspiring photographer, moves with her family to the idyllic suburban town of Stepford, Connecticut. At first, the town seems perfect, but Joanna soon notices something unsettling about the women of Stepford—they are impossibly beautiful,submissive, and obsessed with housework. As her friends begin to transform into docile housewives, Joanna uncovers a horrifying secret: the men of Stepford have sinister plans to replace their wives with lifelike robots.

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It seems we have read a mix of horror, thriller and spicy!!

Some chatter about what’s on the top of our TBRs too.

Some of the books mentioned:

• Contract Bound by Elle May
• Batshit by Kritika Kapoor
• Stolen Tongues by Fleix Blackwell
• Asylum Confessions : Killer Families by Jack Steen
• The Bookshop from Hell by David Haynes
• Consort of the Crime Queen by Persephone Black
• Ghost Camera by Darcy Coates
• The Haunted Forrest by Jeff Strand
• Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
• Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
• The Lamb by Lucy Rose

The hardback cloth covered editions we discussed, are part of the Puffin Clothbound Classics Collection

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Join us for a Ramble where we make life hard for ourselves and try to pick out favourite storing woman in literature!!

Chell falls down a rabbit hole and Annette pulls it out ofthe bag!

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Join Annette and Chell as they discuss Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco, exploring both the book and its 1976 move adaptation.

Which one is better?

Book Stats:
Printed Pages (Paperback): 226 / Publisher: Valancourt Books; Reprint edition (22 Sept. 2023)
Audible duration: 7 hours and 45 minutes / Narrator: RC Bray

Synopsis: Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in Upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it’s an offer that’s too good to refuse. There’s only one catch: Behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals.

But Mrs. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house. As the suspense builds toward a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rentalcomes at a terrible cost....

Movie Stats:

Released: 1976 / Duration: 1 h 37 min

Starring: Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Bette Davis

Director: Dan Curtis

Synopsis: A family moves into a large old mansion in thecountryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its newresidents.

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Join us along with special guest Tab as we discuss truecrime novels and recommend our most gripping reads (full list below).

What are your true crime recommendations?

• Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky

• Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters by PeterVronsky

• The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History by Kevin Sullivan

• The Trail of Ted Bundy: Digging Up the Untold Stories by Kevin Sullivan

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• Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer Anne Rule

• I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

• Halfway Heaven : Diary of a Harvard Murder by MelanieThernstrom

• Hell Hath No Fury: True Stories of Women Who Kill by Wensley Clarkson

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

• A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, andOvercoming (An Insider's Look at the True Crime Story of the BTK Killer, Dennis Rader) by Kerri Rawson

• Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen

• The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson

• Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia by John Gilmore

• Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (graphic novel) by Eric Powell and Harold Schechter

• Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

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