Kate Broad, GREENWICH: A Novel

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Totally Booked: LIVE! In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), Zibby interviews debut author Kate Broad about her stunning, fast-paced, atmospheric novel, GREENWICH. The story centers on Rachel, a 17-year-old navigating a pivotal summer in the opulent world of Greenwich, Connecticut, where a terrible accident forces her to make a life-altering decision. Kate discusses the book’s themes of girlhood, class, moral ambiguity, and family loyalty, as well as the emotional isolation that spans generations. She also opens up about her long road to publication, sharing advice for aspiring writers and the persistence it takes to bring a novel to life.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
0:24.0	look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't
0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:44.6	Welcome back to Totally Booked with Zippy.
0:47.9	I am Zibby Owens and I am so excited to be here today with Kate Broad to discuss her debut
0:53.1	novel, Greenwich.
0:54.6	Yay.
0:55.4	Clap.
0:59.4	Thank you.
1:00.7	I'm going to just read a little bit about Kate, and then we will dive into her delicious book.
1:06.2	Kate Broad holds a BA from Wellesley College and a Ph.D.
1:10.0	In English from the Cooney, Cooney, CUNY,
1:13.4	CUNY, sorry.
1:14.8	CUNY.
1:15.2	People say it totally.
1:15.9	I knew SUNY.
1:16.6	Okay, CUNY Graduate Center.
1:18.5	She is a Bronx Council of the Arts Award winner for fiction and her writing appears in the Rumpus,
1:23.6	no tokens, the Brooklyn Review, and elsewhere.
1:27.6	Greenwich is her first novel. Congratulations.
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