Dolly Alderton, GHOSTS: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Dolly Alderton returns to talk about her debut novel, Ghosts, which is now an international bestseller. Dolly and Zibby discuss the book's snarky but heartening portrayal of mom friends, how they both always find themselves with short-term obsessions, and why those who are chronically late might be the most optimistic people in our lives. Dolly also shares what her experience has been like on set filming the TV adaptation of her memoir, Everything I Know About Love, and some of the new wisdom she has adopted throughout the process.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. |
| 0:19.7 | Also, check out my TikTok at with Zivian Tracy Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. Check out moms don't have time to write on medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. Hi. Hi. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello. |
| 0:38.4 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.0 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have |
| 0:45.7 | Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:47.3 | Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. |
| 0:50.6 | My name is Melissa Gould, and I am so excited to have my essay, |
| 0:56.0 | What's in a Name? My Best Friends. In the new anthology, moms don't have time to have kids. |
| 1:03.0 | And the thing I do not have time for is people who refuse to get the COVID vaccine. Get it, |
| 1:09.9 | people. Deli Alderdin is the author of Ghosts, a novel. She is an |
| 1:14.7 | award-winning author and journalist based in London and a columnist for the Sunday Times style. She's |
| 1:20.8 | also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire, and Gratia. She is the former co-host and co-creator |
| 1:26.1 | of the weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast, |
| 1:28.8 | The High Low. Her first book, Everything I Know About Love, which was a memoir, became a top five |
| 1:33.8 | Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of publication and won a national book award in the UK |
| 1:38.8 | for autobiography of the year. I had Dolly on my podcast to talk about that book so you can go back and listen to |
| 1:44.6 | that episode as well if you like. Ghost is her first novel. Welcome, Dolly. Thank you so much for |
| 1:50.5 | coming on moms. Don't have time to read books for the second time to discuss Ghosts. Now, |
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