Lauren Belfer, ASHTON HALL: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author Lauren Belfer about Ashton Hall, a moody mystery about an American mom and her neurodivergent son and the summer they spend caring for a relative and unearthing the dark, buried secrets of an English manor house. Lauren talks about her character’s neurodiversity (an element rarely portrayed in fiction) and the important themes she explores in the book–marriage, infidelity, and the financial prison that often confines stay-at-home moms. Finally, she reveals the inspiration behind the book (it involves a grandiose British mansion, a sinking cottage, and free-roaming cows!).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
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| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Lauren Belfour is the author of Ashton Hall, a novel. Lauren is the New York Times |
| 1:03.1 | best-selling author of and After the Fire, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, |
| 1:08.1 | A Fierce Radiance, a Washington Post, Best Novel, and NPR, Best Mystery of the Year, and City of Light, a New York Times notable book, a library journal Best Book, a main selection of the Book of the Month Club, and an international bestseller. Belfour attended Swarthmore College and has an MFA from Columbia. She lives in New York City. |
| 1:31.3 | Welcome, Lauren. Thank you so much for coming on. Moms Don't have time to read books to discuss Ashton Hall. Thank you, Zibi. It's an honor to speak with you. And I just wanted to take a minute |
| 1:37.5 | to thank you for all you do to bring readers and writers together. It's really extraordinary, the work that you've done. And I also want to |
| 1:47.3 | tell you how much your memoir bookends has meant to me. And if there are people listening who haven't |
| 1:54.0 | had a chance to read it yet, I hope they'll read it very soon. The section about 9-11 was |
| 2:00.6 | particularly powerful and meaningful for me. So I thank you |
| 2:05.0 | for writing that. Oh, you're welcome. And doing that in addition to everything else you do, |
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