Cecile Pin, WANDERING SOULS

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to debut author Cecile Pin about Wandering Souls, a poetic, immersive, and heartbreaking tale of three orphaned Vietnamese siblings who arrive as refugees in Thatcher’s Britain and must rebuild their lives from scratch, alone. Cecile explains how her mother’s refugee story inspired this novel and what it was like to imagine and write about the atrocities experienced by her ancestors. She also describes her writing trajectory, from philosophy student to editorial assistant to London Writers Award recipient. Finally, she reveals the authors who inspire her and shares her best piece of 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
0:56.1	basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.4	Cecile Pinn is the author of Wandering Souls, a novel. Cecil grew up in Paris and New York
1:08.3	City. She moved to London at 18 to study philosophy at
1:11.7	University College London and received an MA at King's College, London. She writes for Bad Forum
1:16.9	Review, was long listed for their Young Writers Prize, and is a 2021 London Writers' Award winner. Wondering
1:23.6	Souls is her first novel, and she is also now long listed for the women's book prize
1:29.5	in the UK. Welcome, Cecile. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Bucks
1:34.3	to discuss your beautiful novel, Wandering Souls. Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure. Your book is
1:40.0	so good. It's so good and so captivating from the very first scene. It's so, like,
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