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Emily Layden is the author of All girls, her debut novel. Emily is a writer and former high school English teacher from

upstate New York, a graduate of Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times,

Marie Claire, the Bill Fold, and Runner's World. Welcome, Emily. Thank you so much for coming on moms.

Don't have time to read books. Thanks so much for having me. Sure. Welcome, Emily. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books.

Thanks for having me. Sure. Okay, all girls. This book cover sort of stopped me in my tracks. I went to an

all-girls school. I have to tell you for nine years. And this was not my exact uniform,

but this was the uniform of a lot of the girls down the street who I also grew up with.

So for that alone, I was like, huh, well, this is interesting.

And then turned out it was a really great book.

So there you go.

I'm getting that from, so I've worked at several all-girls schools, but I'm also getting

that feedback from a lot of people.

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