Genevieve Gannon, THE MOTHERS

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Journalist and author Genevieve Gannon explains to Zibby how her latest novel, The Mothers, started as a failed newspaper article pitch about two families and an IVF mix up. She continues on to discuss why it's important for women to talk publicly about experiences with IVF and miscarriages, the influence her career in journalism has had on her novels, and how she outlined the characters to allow the story to focus on —you guessed it— the mothers.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
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0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
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0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:38.0	Genevieve Gannon is the author of The Mothers. She is an award-winning Sydney-based journalist,
0:43.0	an author of four novels, who, by the way, woke up at 7 a.m. or woke up earlier to do this
0:48.0	podcast at 7 a.m. her time, and she was, like, fully dressed and presentable, and I give her
0:52.5	a lot of props for doing that. She is presently
0:55.5	the staff writer for the nation's biggest women's magazine, the Australian Women's Weekly,
1:00.6	where she covers everything from cold case murders and cults to celebrities and sports stars. Her
1:05.5	journalism has appeared in most of Australia's major newspapers, and she has recently won the
1:10.1	Mumbrella Published Journalist of the Year Award. Welcome, Genevieve. Thanks so much for coming on. Moms Don't have time to read books to discuss the mothers. Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be with you. And all the way from Sydney, Australia, across days, across time zones. It's very exciting. My best friend's name is Genevieve, but we call her
1:29.6	Jen. But anyway. Oh, really? It's a pretty unusual name. Yep. She spells exactly the same.
1:34.7	Same thing. Anyway. Okay. Would you mind telling listeners what the mothers is about and what inspired
1:41.6	you to write it? I know this is your, what, your fourth book, your fifth book? Yeah, it's different to my other ones though, because it was very much
1:48.7	inspired by real events, which has not been the case previously. I mean, essentially,
1:54.2	it's about a mix-up in an IVF lab. And it's not a spoiler to say that because, you know,
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