A Zibby Summer Reads pick—Life and Love After Divorce; Caro Carver, BAD TOURISTS
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with author Caro Carver about BAD TOURISTS, a propulsive and deliciously dark novel about three tight-knit friends who embark on an extravagant post-divorce trip to the Maldives… only to realize the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer. Caro describes her own trip to the Maldives, her use of a new pseudonym and genre (she uses CJ Cooke for her gothic thrillers!), and her love of writing stories that resonate with women. She also shares details of her difficult childhood in a violent household and the challenge of raising children while processing past trauma.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
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| 0:42.7 | Carol Carver is the author of Bad Tourists, a novel. Carol lives in Scotland with her husband and four |
| 0:48.4 | children. She is a reader in creative writing at the University of Glasgow, teaches for the Faber |
| 0:53.3 | Academy and the Curtis Brown Academy, |
| 0:55.4 | and regularly speaks on panels and hosts events on writing. Caro is happiest when traveling |
| 1:00.5 | and takes inspiration from her travels to write her books. Bad Tourists is her first book |
| 1:06.0 | written under the pseudonym of Carrow Carver. She is also published as CJ Cook for her Gothic thrillers. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome, Caro. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss |
| 1:17.2 | bad tourists, a novel. Congratulations. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here |
| 1:22.8 | and chat about it with you. Oh, yay. Amazing. I love the whole premise of a post-divorce trip with your girlfriends. So |
| 1:30.3 | fun. I feel like that should definitely be a thing. Like it should have its own name, right? Why not? |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah, absolutely. I think I heard about someone doing that on Instagram and I was like, yeah, |
| 1:41.1 | that should be a thing, you know? It's a new chapter and it's a new start. So, yeah, we should celebrate that. I love that. And this is also kind of a new chapter, new start for you with your new pseudonym for this book and new genre and all of that. So it's very fitting. You know, you should have taken a trip for this. Perhaps you did. I did. Oh, you did. Amazing. Where'd you go? |
| 2:02.5 | I went to the Maldives. Oh, there you go. Yeah, it was after. Yeah, right. It was after COVID. |
| 2:08.9 | So it was like, you know, we'd canceled quite a few little trips or like multiple times because |
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