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It\\u2019s 25 year since the New York Times\\u2019 best-selling author Lisa Jewell\\xa0published her\\xa0first novel, Ralph\\u2019s Party. Since then she\\u2019s written another twenty-one novels, and more recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and the award winning None of This is True. She joins Krupa Padhy to discuss her latest work \\u2013 Breaking the Dark \\u2013 which is a Jessica Jones Marvel crime novel, exploring the world of the private detective and former superhero.\\xa0

Over the summer Woman\\u2019s Hour is looking at \\u2018genre fiction\\u2019. Today we start the series with the ever-popular genre of romance and its new sub-genre, romantasy. Lindsey Kelk published her first romance novel I Heart New York in 2009. Her new novel Love Story is just that, as well as being an interrogation of the very concept of romantic fiction. Sarah A. Parker\\u2019s romantasy novel When the Moon Hatched went from an independently published TikTok sensation to Sunday Times bestseller. Both authors join Krupa to discuss the stigma and success of the romance genre.

A video of a 19 month old baby babbling has gone viral after people noticed she had a Scouse accent. The video, which shows baby Orla chatting away to her Mum\\u2019s friend, has been viewed more than 20 million times. To explain what\\u2019s going on when babies and very young children are learning language, and how can they have an accent before they can properly speak, Krupa is joined by Professor Julian Pine, Professor of Psychology at the University of Liverpool.

A recent advertising campaign for Bluebella the underwear brand, features three of the GB women's rugby team members in the brand\\u2019s lingerie, on a rugby pitch. The campaign has had a mixed response. Krupa discusses with rugby journalist, Victoria Rush, and Sarah Bellew, head of communications for Women in Sport a charity that tackles gender inequality in sport.

More than 150 pages of court transcripts from a 2006 grand jury criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein were released to the public on Monday. A judge in Florida ordered the release of the documents which had been kept secret for nearly two decades. They included first hand testimony from teenage victims as young as 14. To discuss the significance of this Krupa speaks to Emma Long, Head of American Studies at the University of East Anglia

Presented by Krupa Padhy\\nProducer: Louise Corley