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Diving In

Diving In is a conversation you will want to be part of - Louise and Virginia have been best friends since university - they share a passion for story telling and read loads of good books. Make yourself a cup of tea and listen in as they share the books they’ve been loving, and also the films, TV series, podcasts and articles they’ve enjoyed.

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Diving In

75: Teen Sleuths, Cringe Parents and Dysfunctional Families

March 02, 2026 • Virginia Seymour and Louise Jones

0:00 | 55:41

Louise and Virginia dive deep into all thing’s books for Teen Readers, books categorised ‘Young Adult’ but marketed to teenagers. They discuss the creation of the category, whether publishers should provide some sort of classification system, or content advice as well as four great books and one book that, whilst very gripping, is surely mis-categorised - to Virginia’s dismay! As always they finish the conversation with a few other things they’ve been diving into recently.

Books

Return to Sender by Lauren Draper

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

Bear by Kiri Lightfoot

What’s Murder Between Friends by Meg Gatland-Veness

My Family and Other Suspects by Kate Emery

Other things

JournalTok

Television

Three Families – ABC iView

Film

Rental Family

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Song ‘Diving In’ – Original music and lyrics written and performed by Laura Adeline – https://linktr.ee/llauraadeline

Podcast sound production and editing by Andy Maher

Graphics by Orla Larkin – create@werkshop.com.au