Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Katie Bishop is the author of the Girls of Summer,

a novel. Katie is a writer and journalist based in Birmingham in the UK. She has written for the New York Times, The Guardian Vogue, The Independent, and other publications. The Girls of Summer is her first novel. Welcome, Katie. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss your novel, The Girls of Summer. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I love the podcast, so I'm really excited to be here. Thank you. Well, I love the book, and I've been shouting it from the rooftops. It's so good.

It's so interesting and different and immersive, and I don't know. I relate to like,

it's like the two sides of everybody's life, right, when you're older and then you're younger,

and looking back and reckoning with what you older and then you're younger and looking back

and reckoning with what you have and what you didn't have. And I don't know, the way you write, too, and the suspense, it's great. It's just great. Oh, thank you so much. You've just, you've said kind of everything that I wanted people to think about it there. So thank you so much. No problem. Okay, why don't you tell listeners what the book is about?

Yeah, so the way that I would probably describe the girls of summer is it's a kind of one that got away story with a bit of a Me Too twist to it. So it's about a woman called Rachel and she's in a mid-thirtis and she's quite settled, she's married, she's got a job that she likes, but she's also quite

unhappy because she's never really been able to let go of the memories of this magical

summer that she had back when she was 17 backpacking around the Greek islands, and in particular,

a relationship that she had at the time with a guy called Alistair, who was about 15 years older

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