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

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Presenter: Today we’re _______at the darker side of literature ______________books about not-so-happy families. And we’ve got _______Helen Slade and book critic Anna _______to talk us through them. First up, we’re looking at Her _______Daughter by Alice Fitzgerald, a _______written from two points of view, one of a child and ______________of her very troubled _______.
Helen, I have to be _______. I _______this one hard to read. It’s very _______written but, well, how did you find it?
Helen: I know what you _______, but I literally couldn’t put it down ______________up till three in the morning to finish it. _______something about immersing yourself in a _______this flawed, this damaged, that’s _______. You’d never want to be in that family _______, but that’s what reading is about, isn’t it? Wearing _______else’s shoes for a while without ever _______to live their reality.
Presenter: You surprise _______! The families in your own books are a _______miles away from this one.
Helen: Yeah, my _______always be sure they’re going to get a _______ending. Which you definitely ... I don’t want to give too _______away here, but you definitely don’t _______like a happy ending is coming for these _______.
Presenter: OK, so _______mention the ending, but can you just describe ______________what the book is about?
Helen: So, it’s _______a family with secrets. The mother has hidden her _______childhood from her husband and her _______children but, of course, it’s shaped her entire _______and how she behaves as a mother and as a _______. Which is especially obvious when we’re _______the sections told in the child’s voice, even _____________________girl herself doesn’t understand the _______of everything she’s seeing.
Presenter: For me, _______was really so shocking was less what _______to the mother when she was a child but how the _______treated her own children. Why is that, do you _______?
Helen: I think we’re _______programmed to see mothers as something _______and pure. As a child she was mistreated by her _______, and in some ways we’re not that shocked by _______, which is a sad thing in itself, and her own mother _______help her. As a reader we’re less affected by _______, I think, because that part of the story is _______us in the mother’s voice, the adult voice. But ______________the way she treats her own child is so much _______shocking is that the child is telling us _______it _______we sympathise with her. It’s very clever how the author plays on our natural instincts to protect a child.