A request from your boss Task 1 Match the beginnings and endings of the phrases

Presenter: Though we do feel _______for the mother too. Or, at least, I did.
Helen: It’s hard not to. She’s _______in her own unhappiness.
Presenter: And we’re _______right there with her as the reader. It made me wonder, Anna, why is it that miserable books like _______one sell so well?
Anna: Because all of us _______families. I suppose the books play out _______we all see in much smaller ways in our own _______lives.
Presenter: The _______hard-hitting book this week is We Need to Talk _______Kevin by Lionel
Shriver. Now there’s a _______who have a problem!
Anna: They definitely _______. Very few people will ever have a killer as a _______son like the narrator in the book, but we can _______identify with the challenges and often terrifying _______of raising teenagers!
Presenter: So can _______give us the lowdown on Kevin, then, Anna?
Anna: This book is _______from the point of view of the mother in _______she’s writing to her husband, Kevin’s father. _______, _______shouldn’t say too much about the ending, _______the way the author uses the letters is very clever.
Presenter: I have ______________, I really enjoyed this book. It’s a difficult _______, but it was much easier to read than Her _______Daughter.
Anna: As Helen _______, it’s about the voice of the narrator. _______no child’s voice and, in
this story, the _______in many ways are the adults, though, of course, _______sister is a victim of her brother’s evil.
Helen: Yes, and the _______of where ‘evil’ comes from is a theme that comes _______in both books. If you choose to call it ‘evil’ _______is. I prefer to describe it as a complete lack of _______. The mother in Her Mother’s Daughter _______a terrible childhood, but Kevin’s from a happy _______and good parents.
Presenter: Is he _______? The mother often admits she found _______hard. Aren’t we _______to think she might have _______Kevin to turn out the way he does? _______like in Her Mother’s Daughter.
Anna: Both books _______look at how the mistakes of the _______affect children. And this is another reason we relate to _______books. Parents are always worrying if _______doing a good job.