Book Club: A Wrinkle in Time
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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The impact of Madeline L’Engle’s award-winning and trail-blazing 1962 classic novel A Wrinkle in Time lasts to this day - and continues to inspire. We untangle themes of science, religion, conformity, love and embracing yourself for who you are.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.5 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.3 | And welcome to Stuff One Never Told You, a production of IHare Radio. |
| 0:29.1 | And today we are bringing a book that I am so excited we chose. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm thrilled about this. |
| 0:37.2 | So for our book club for Women's History Month, we are doing, I don't think we've ever done one quite like this. We are talking about |
| 0:39.7 | Madeline Lingle's 1962 classic A Rinkle in Time. It's a young adult science fiction fantasy novel |
| 0:48.2 | that explores themes of feeling different, conformity, science, religion, family, and love. |
| 0:54.9 | It tackles some pretty big ideas, but in a way that is accessible and really creative and draws you in. |
| 1:01.7 | It encourages curiosity. |
| 1:03.5 | It asks questions. |
| 1:04.9 | It encourages you being yourself. |
| 1:09.5 | While it was rejected by several publishers, about 26 publishers, apparently they thought |
| 1:17.4 | it had too much evil for a children's book and having a girl being the main protagonist |
| 1:22.6 | and the science fiction book just wasn't done at the time. |
| 1:25.6 | They were really struggling with like, what is this? |
| 1:29.2 | How do we classify this book? It did go on to be a massive critical success, including winning |
| 1:37.2 | at numerous awards like the Newberry Medal in 1963. And it's a hugely popular and beloved book. |
| 1:43.7 | It is still relevant today. I was struck by it, |
| 1:47.1 | rereading it this time. It sold over 10 million copies. It's been adapted more than once as a film. |
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