Jane Green, THE FRIENDS WE KEEP

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Jane Green is the author of many best-selling novels. Her latest book, The Friends We Keep, debuted early this summer, and is set at university in the UK in the 1980s. Three students become best friends and promise to stay close forever - but of course, life has other plans. The story follows them throughout the course of their lives until their thirtieth reunion - they're all swept right back into their circle of friendship, and start making plans. But there's a secret (how could there not be!?). Jane's inspiration and writing process is as fascinating as her novel. Listen in!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the Webby-nominated podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:13.8	This episode of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books has been sponsored by Himalaya, the best app for discovering, listening, and organizing podcasts.
0:22.5	Himalaya was nice enough to reach out and make me an editor's choice. So now they're a sponsor.
0:27.7	Check them out at Himalaya.com or in the app store. I'm excited to be here today with Jane Green.
0:33.2	Jane is the author of many best-selling novels, including The Beach House and the Sunshine Sisters.
0:38.6	Her latest book, The Friends We Keep, debuted early this summer.
0:41.9	Jane's novels have been published in 25 languages.
0:45.2	She has more than 10 million books in print worldwide.
0:48.3	A graduate of the International Culinary Institute in New York, Jane is an avid cook and gardener.
0:53.0	Originally from the UK, Jane currently lives
0:55.3	with her husband and children in Connecticut. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read
0:59.4	books. Thank you. It's lovely to be here. So Jane, can you tell listeners, please, what the friends
1:05.4	we keep is about and what inspired you to write this story? So I'm going to talk about the inspiration first, which was that I realized that when I started
1:14.0	to think about writing a new book, I was probably 49 or 50 when I started writing this book.
1:20.6	And I always draw from the themes of my life.
1:22.7	And I started to realize that I have lots of friends and a great life.
1:27.3	And yet, my life is much more isolated
1:29.8	than I ever expected. And partly, I blame technology. You know, I think we're also busy
1:35.5	hiding behind our phones and our screens that we're not connecting with people face-to-face
1:40.2	in the way we used to. And the busyness of life. And I realized as well that we're about
1:46.2	to be empty nesters in a couple of years, the kids will all be gone. And every time my husband and I
1:52.6	went out for dinner with friends, we'd always end up having the same conversation, which was,
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