Jennifer Niven
Simon Mayo's Books of the Year
Bauer Media
4.9 • 994 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jennifer Niven (bestselling author of 'All The Bright Places' joins Simon and Matt for a natter about her first adult fiction novel.
'Meet The Newmans' is about a famous American TV family in the 1960s - and their subsequent unravelling! Jennifer chats about her inspirations for the novel and why she decided to turn to writing for adults (after a huge career as a YA author). They also discuss TV culture from the 60s, the present day reality shows - and - America (then and now)
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| 1:33.9 | It's another Books of the Year podcast. |
| 1:36.0 | One of the, I think it's generally considered to be the greatest books pod in the UK. |
| 1:41.2 | Oh, just in the UK? |
| 1:42.4 | Well, from what I hear around the colonies it's generally well thought of around the world. Well, there's well. Okay. All over the Commonwealth. Right, right. All of those places. We should consider going on a book's Commonwealth tour. Now this I can get behind, yeah. So we could go, you know, Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Canada. |
| 2:01.8 | Lovely, definitely going there. |
| 2:03.5 | This could be good, couldn't it? |
| 2:04.9 | Yeah, yeah, absolutely. |
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| 2:12.3 | Dear debut novel and difficult follow-up, says Emma, in Exeter. |
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