Ilona Bannister, WHEN I RAN AWAY
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
"I discovered that the writing was helping me process everything that had happened. I didn't know that that's what I needed to do." Debut novelist Ilona Bannister has a heartfelt conversation with Zibby about how her experience on 9/11 served as the backstory for her book, When I Ran Away, and the traumatic events that allowed her to fall into writing and rein in her anxiety.
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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. |
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| 1:25.0 | Ilana Bannister is the author of When I Ran Away, a novel. |
| 1:28.8 | Alana grew up on Staten Island and lived in New York City until she married a Brit and moved |
| 1:33.1 | to London. |
| 1:33.9 | A dual qualified U.S. attorney and UK solicitor, she practiced immigration law in the U.K. |
| 1:39.1 | before taking a career break to raise her two young sons and unexpectedly found herself |
| 1:43.7 | writing fiction. When I ran away, |
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