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Emily Giffin is the author of The Lies That Bind. She is a Chicago native and graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest

University and the University of Virginia School of Law. After law school, she moved to Manhattan

and practiced litigation at a large firm for several years while she paid back her

school loans, wrote a novel in her very limited spare time, and dreamed of becoming a writer.

Despite the rejection of her first manuscript, Emily persisted retiring from the legal profession

and moving to London to pursue her dreams full time, which we talk about in this episode.

It was there that she began writing something borrowed 2004, a story of a young woman who

upon turning 30 finally learned to take a risk and follow her heart.

One year later, her own gamble paid off, as she completed the manuscript, landed an agent,

and signed a two-book deal on both sides of the Atlantic.

The following summer, something borrowed,

hailed his heartbreakingly honest debut with dead-on dialogue, real-life complexity, and genuine warmth,

became a surprise sensation, and Giffin vowed never to practice law again, dubbed a modern-day

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