Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen join Kate and Michelle to talk about their latest novel, Our Deadly Summer, a darkly funny thriller following two best friends who spend a summer at a Long Island country club in the early 2000's, witness something they should never have seen, and spend the next twenty years trying to forget it.
The duo share how their own J1 experiences and the reckless freedom of life before smartphones shaped the book, why they deliberately set it in a pre-tracking, pre-social media world and what it felt like to take their writing in a new direction while holding onto the warmth and female friendship that has always defined their work.
They also open up about how their co-writing process actually works, from flipping a coin to decide who writes the dreaded first chapter, to editing each other's work so thoroughly that they often forget who wrote what, to the discipline required to keep moving when a deadline is closing in.
A warm, funny and refreshingly candid conversation about creative partnership, nostalgia, female friendship and what it really takes to keep writing.
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