Double Love
Do you have sparkling blue-green eyes that are the colour of the Pacific Ocean? Do you have hair like spun gold? Are you tanned, energetic and a perfect size 6? Neither are we. Join us, Karyn and Anna, as we head back to the sensational 1980s book series.
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43: SECRET ADMIRER
Penny Ayala is feeling left out. She's smart and cool but she gets shy around boys and never had a boyfriend, which as you can imagine makes socialising difficult in the bizarre world of Sweet Valley. The solution? Challenging the weird heteronormative sy...
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42: LEAVING HOME
Oh god. It's the one where Elizabeth becomes obsessed with Switzerland. And we mean seriously, unhealthily obsessed - like, she literally talks about nothing else th...
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41: RUMOURS
You can go your own way, but do listen to this episode, in which we discuss the best Sweet Valley book to share a name with a classic Fleetwood Mac album. Don't stop...
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40: LAST CHANCE
Move over, Nicholas Morrow and Emily Meyer's dad - there's a new contender for the crown of Worst Man in Sweet Valley! And that man is Peter de Haven, self-obsessed ...
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39: OUT OF CONTROL
We thought we knew just how annoying Elizabeth Wakefield was, but it turns out we hadn't seen the true depths of her awfulness until this book, where we see Liz at h...
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38: FORBIDDEN LOVE
OMG you guys, Maria and Michael are engaged! You know, Maria who's just been a background player for the last 37 books and Michael who has never been mentioned befor...
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Karyn
Karyn is a freelance graphic designer, one half of Double Love and a full-time Sweet Valley High obsessive.
Anna
A journalist, scriptwriter and the author of five YA novels, the most recent of which is The Making of Mollie, which was shortlisted for the Senior Children's Book of the Year Prize at the 2016 Irish Book Awards. Her first book The Real Rebecca won the same prize at the 2011 Irish Book Awards.