Ashley Audrain, THE WHISPERS

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author Ashley Audrain about The Whispers, an electrifying, razor-sharp page-turner about four neighboring women who don’t realize how connected they are until an unthinkable tragedy happens on their street. Ashley talks about motherhood, parenting, women’s friendships, pregnancy loss, grief, and anger as they relate to her fascinating characters. She also reveals that she is working on her next book and shares her best advice for aspiring writers.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop
0:40.3	at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.2	Ashley Audrain is the author of The Whispers, a novel. This is actually one of my Zippy's book club
1:09.6	picks for this fall.
1:10.9	So be sure to join Zivis Book Club, which you can read about on Zivimedia.com, and attend our book club where we can discuss the whispers. And then we'll have a Q&A with Ashley about the book. Doesn't that sound like fun? Why would you not want to join? Come on. You can do it. Anyway, Ashley Audrains' debut novel, The Push, was in New York Times,
1:29.2	Sunday Times of London, and number one international bestseller and a Good Morning America
1:33.8	Book Club pick. I had Ashley on for The Push as well. It has sold in more than 40 territories,
1:40.0	and a limited television series is currently in development. Ashley previously worked as a publicity director of Penguin Books, Canada.
1:47.3	Prior to that, she worked in public relations.
1:49.5	She lives in Toronto, where she and her partner are raising their two young children.
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