Audrey Ingram, THE SUMMER WE RAN: A Novel

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Zibby Publishing author alert! Zibby chats with Audrey Ingram about THE SUMMER WE RAN, a mesmerizing, smart, emotionally rich, and perfectly nostalgic story of first love, devastating secrets, shocking sabotage, political rivalry, and second chances. Audrey shares the inspiration behind Tess and Grant’s love story, the lush Virginia setting, and how her personal experiences with gardening, law, and even a serious health scare shaped her writing. From the intensity of teenage romance to the high stakes of a gubernatorial race, Zibby and Audrey dive into themes of class, resilience, and the power of storytelling to build empathy and connection.

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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
0:40.1	at Zibby Owens. Audrey Ingram is the author of The Summer We Ran, a novel. This is a book that we are
0:51.0	publishing at Zibby Publishing, meaning we acquired the book and we are bringing
0:56.1	it out into the world, which means you must run out and go by this book. The summer we ran is worth
1:02.1	running out for. Okay, anyway, Audrey Ingram is the author of the River Run South and the
1:07.4	group trip. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and Georgetown University Law Center
1:11.9	and practice law in Washington, D.C. for 15 years. When not writing, she can be found digging in
1:17.0	her garden or hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains. An Alabama native, Audrey currently lives in Virginia
1:22.1	with her husband and three children. We are so honored to be publishing the summer we ran. Welcome, Audrey. Thank you so
1:30.3	much for coming on Totally Booked with Zibby to talk about the summer we ran, which is also
1:35.9	Zippy publishing titles. There you go. Congrats. Thank you so much for having me. I remember when
1:41.1	this manuscript came in and we all read it and we're obsessed. It was so good.
1:45.1	And then we got the book and we were so excited. And now fast forward, here it is. We have a galley in my hands and seen the finished coffee. So so exciting.
1:53.7	It's been a joy start to finish. Yay. Okay. Tell listeners what the summer we ran is about.
2:00.2	So it is about first loves turned political rivals.
2:04.2	And it follows Tess and Grant who meet as teenagers and despite their very different backgrounds
2:09.6	fall deeply in love.
2:11.7	But their summer romance ends in heartbreak and tragedy and unfortunate secrets they keep from
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