Beth O'Leary, THE WAKE-UP CALL

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bestselling author Beth O’Leary joins Zibby to discuss THE WAKE-UP CALL, an utterly delicious rom-com about Izzy and Lucas, two receptionists at a beautiful but rundown hotel in England, who find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to return them to their owners, hoping that the rewards might help them save the hotel. (This is challenging because they hate each other!) Beth describes the inspiration behind this story (it involves a fascination with rings) and her writing trajectory since the success of her 2019 debut, THE FLATSHARE, which has sold over a million copies. In the end, she shares details of her upcoming book and offers valuable 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.
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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	Beth O'Leary is the author of The Wake Up Call. Beth is a Sunday Times best-selling author
1:08.4	whose books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
1:12.1	She wrote her debut novel, Flat Share, on her train journey to and from her job at a children's
1:16.9	publisher. She now lives in the Hampshire countryside and writes full-time.
1:20.9	Welcome, Beth. Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
1:24.7	Oh, thank you so much for having me.
1:26.2	Your book? So funny, delightful,
1:29.5	love your characters, wanted to just, like, hang out at the hotel, wanted to, like, patch
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