Alice Feeney, BEAUTIFUL UGLY

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Zibby is joined by New York Times million-copy bestselling author Alice Feeney to discuss her magnetic, jaw-dropping new thriller, BEAUTIFUL UGLY. Alice delves into the story, which follows struggling author Grady Green a year after his wife’s mysterious disappearance, and what happens when he travels to a tiny Scottish island to get his life back on track... and sees a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. Alice describes her creative process and explores her novel’s themes of grief, love, identity, and revenge. She also reflects on the balance between fiction and personal experience.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
0:24.0	look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't
0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:44.7	Alice Feeney is the author of Beautiful, Ugly, a novel.
0:48.0	And by the way, this is my Zivvy's book club pick.
0:51.4	I loved this book.
0:52.9	I underlined like a thousand sentences. Plus the
0:55.7	plot was great, but really the writing was amazing and so good. Beautiful, ugly Alice Fini.
1:01.7	Alice Fini is the New York Times bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie, I Know Who You Are,
1:06.5	His and Hers, Rock Paper, Cissors, and Good Bad girl. Her novels have been translated into over 25 languages
1:12.0	and have been optioned for major screen adaptations. Alice was a BBC journalist for 15 years and now
1:17.9	lives in the Devon Countryside with her family. Welcome, Alice. Thank you so much for coming on Moms
1:22.9	Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss beautiful, ugly. Congratulations. thank you so much for having me it's
1:29.5	lovely to be here alice this book was so good i could not stop reading it all the twists and turns
1:36.5	all the one-line zingers that i started like numbering because there were so many of them so good i
1:42.8	i mean so so good congr. It's so good.
1:46.1	Thank you very much. Thank you. So why don't you start by telling everybody what the book is about?
1:51.8	Well, Beautiful Ugly is about an author called Grady Green, who is having the best worst day of his life.
1:59.2	And basically, Grady's waiting to find out if his latest book
2:02.0	might be a New York Times bestseller. And he really hopes that it will be because things are a bit of bit tough, him career-wise. His marriage is not quite what it used to be. And he's hoping if he's has this moment of success, perhaps his wife's going to look at him the way she used to. He really wants her to be there for the call
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