S18 Ep149: The Applicant: Crimes of Privilege and Passion with Rebecca Hanover
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Audrey Singer revels in her position as the admissions director of an exclusive Manhattan private school. Parents cater to her whims and desires, desperate to give their children an edge. Audrey’s power is undeniable; privilege comes with the territory. Her perfect marriage completes the glossy picture of her life. Until the arrival of the neurotic, vulnerable Sarah Price. Determined to get her son into the city’s most coveted kindergarten class, Sarah inserts herself into Audrey’s world, testing boundaries at every turn. For Sarah, everything Audrey has is a potential target: her job, her friends…even her marriage.
But what seems to be another ploy by an overachieving mother takes a dark and ominous turn. Sarah seems to be hiding secrets of her own. Are her designs on Audrey’s life purely about getting what she wants for her son?
Rebecca Hanover joins TCT to talk about "The Applicant", her writing process, what it is like to win an Emmy, and what the people in your life think of you when the characters in your book do some disturbing things!
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PLUS AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH BEER CITY BRUISER!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dents. |
| 0:26.4 | Got a good show ahead for you today folks. Of course later on the program we've got dumb crime |
| 0:30.9 | stupid criminals. Beer City Bruiser will join us for that but |
| 0:33.5 | first gotta tell you about this book I read this past weekend I was absolutely |
| 0:39.0 | enthralled with that I tell you sat down and I read the applicant by Rebecca Hanover and it's a little bit |
| 0:47.2 | different than what we normally tackle here on True Crime Tuesday but it was |
| 0:51.7 | different in a good way. It had me kind of gripped the |
| 0:55.6 | entire time. As I'm reading it, I'm really into the characters in this book |
| 1:00.4 | because these characters, even though they're in a world that I'm not |
| 1:04.7 | normally used to and by the way this is a fictional work here but these these |
| 1:10.1 | characters that I'm not normally used to and they're not in my world grab me. |
| 1:15.2 | They just grab me, brought me in and I was with this book the entire way. |
| 1:19.4 | In fact, I didn't even put it down. I sat down, read this book the entire way through in one sitting which I don't normally do |
| 1:25.7 | this isn't normally my bag to sit down and read a book all the way through in one sitting so really |
| 1:30.8 | I got to tip my cap to Rebecca before we bring her on here and just say |
| 1:34.4 | that this was one of those books that I didn't want to put down. I wanted to stay with it and I wanted to find |
| 1:40.5 | out about these characters |
| 1:42.6 | and find out where it was going |
| 1:44.5 | because of the twists and turns |
| 1:46.0 | and not everything is what it seems in this book, |
| 1:48.6 | which I absolutely love. |
| 1:50.0 | I love the duality of different characters in this book, The Applicant. |
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