Clare Leslie Hall, BROKEN COUNTRY
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Reese’s Book Club Pick! Zibby chats with Clare Leslie Hall about BROKEN COUNTRY, a completely immersive and unforgettable love story that is simmering with passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences. Clare shares the inspiration behind her book, which blends a love triangle, a murder trial, and a deep sense of place in the English countryside. They discuss Clare’s journey from journalist to novelist, the challenges of weaving suspense into love stories, the novel's themes of grief and loss, and how she immersed herself in farm life to bring authenticity to her setting.
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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 zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Claire Leslie Hall is the author of Broken Country, which is a Zippy's book club |
| 0:49.3 | pick for June. Claire Leslie Hall is a novelist and journalist who lives in the wilds of Dorset England with her family. |
| 0:55.8 | Under the name Claire Empson, she published two domestic noir thrillers, him and mine, that were published in the UK and Germany. |
| 1:03.1 | She has always loved The Go Between by L.P. Hartley and Broken Country is a nod to it, featuring a forbidden love affair with catastrophic repercussions. |
| 1:13.2 | Broken Family is her U.S. debut. |
| 1:15.3 | Welcome, Claire. |
| 1:16.1 | Thank you so much for coming on to discuss Broken Country, a novel, which, as I've posted about, I am obsessed with. |
| 1:23.7 | It was so good. |
| 1:24.9 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:25.7 | So thank you. |
| 1:26.5 | Oh, thank you so much for saying that. And also, |
| 1:29.4 | thank you for having me. I'm really excited to chat to you today. And I saw just yesterday, |
| 1:35.0 | it came out that this is the Barnes & Noble pick for the month. So congratulations. |
| 1:40.0 | Thank you. Over the moon. Oh, my gosh. I'm sure it will be the first of many, including mine, |
| 1:45.9 | a tiny club compared to, you know, Barnes & Noble or whatever, but whatever I can do to get people |
| 1:51.0 | to read it. I was so immersed and covering my eyes and I don't know. It was like the greatest |
| 1:57.0 | read. Tell everybody what the book is about, please. Yeah, so Broken Country is about a |
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