#244 Ann Napolitano: From 80 Rejections To A Global Bestseller

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today's guest is New York Times Bestselling novelist Ann Napolitano. In this episode we are discussing her new novel Dear Edward. Unlike a lot of big new titles publishing in 2020, this isn’t the big debut push. Dear Edward is Ann Napolitano’s third book, her first novel was rejected 80 times, and her second novel hardly sold. And yet Dear Edward is set to be one of 2020’s biggest new novels. I absolutely loved this book. Here's the blurb: one summer morning, a flight takes off from New York to Los Angeles. There are 191 passengers aboard: among them a young woman taking a pregnancy test in the airplane toilet; a Wall Street millionaire flirting with the air hostess; an injured soldier returning from Afghanistan; and two parents moving across the country with their adolescent sons, bickering over who gets the window seat. When the plane suddenly crashes in a field in Colorado, the younger of these boys, 12-year-old Edward Adler, is the sole survivor. Dear Edward depicts Edward's life in the crash's aftermath as he struggles to make sense of the meaning of his survival, the strangeness of his sudden fame, and find his place in the world without his family. I really recommend buying this book and loved chatting to Ann about writing fiction. Please do rate and review if you enjoyed :)

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-op Delete with me
1:06.9	Emma Gannon today's guest is the brilliant novelist Anne Napolitano. In this
1:11.6	episode we are discussing her new novel, Dear Edward, you might have seen
1:15.6	it being advertised, it's a huge book for 2020. I absolutely loved it and I wanted to read you the
1:21.4	blurb quickly because I think that's the best way to explain what the book is about because it really is a very heartfelt deep and meaningful but also very endearing book. It's about a flight that takes off from New York to
1:36.0	Los Angeles. There are 191 passengers on board. Among them is a young
1:40.6	woman taking a pregnancy test in the airplane toilet. There is a young woman taking a pregnancy test in the airplane toilet.
1:44.0	There is a millionaire Wall Street guy flirting with one of the air hostesses.
1:49.0	And there's an injured soldier returning from Afghanistan,
1:52.0	and there's two parents moving
1:54.3	across the country with their sons. So so much is going on on the plane and it
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