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The Book Case

Lily King Writes her Heart

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7913 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Lily King’s newest, Heart the Lover, is a sparing, funny, painful and beautiful novel about the first loves we have, and how they never really let go. The humanity, joy and sadness of the novel will keep you turning pages and keep the characters with you long after you have closed the book.  We talk to her about her inspirations, her struggles in writing this book and how she triumphed over difficulty in how to end the novel (no spoilers, promise). We also talk to Dixon Books in Natchez Mississippi, less than 24 hours from their grand opening, a first for us.  Join us to talk all things books and bookstores... Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this week's episode: Heart the Lover by Lily King Writers & Lovers by Lily King Euphoria by Lily King Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories by Lily King Father of the Rain by Lily King The Pleasing Hour by Lily King The English Teacher by Lily King Coconuts for the Saint by Debra Sparks Different Seasons by Stephen King Independent People by Halldor Laxness War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.4

Well, you hear the plunkety plunk music, which I have to say, like, we picked out the plunkety plunk music like, what, three years ago? I still love it. I still love it. Four years ago. Yes, four years ago. Yeah. I still love it. And I hope you at home do too. You listen to the plunkety plunk and you start your car or you start your morning or you're folding your laundry or whatever you're doing while you're listening to us. Whatever you're

0:57.5

doing, be welcome. I am the Kate of the Kate and Charlie. And I'm Charlie Gibson, the bookcase

1:02.7

with Kate and Charlie. We have a book this week with an awkward title, I think, but there's

1:07.9

nothing awkward about the book. Heart the lover is the name of the book. Lily

1:12.9

King is the author. And it's both a sweet story and a sad story. It's really about your first love and how

1:21.1

that never leaves you, even if your life moves on or if it doesn't, that love sticks with you.

1:28.7

Do you have one?

1:30.6

Sure.

1:31.3

And no.

1:35.1

And no, I'm not going to discuss it with you.

1:37.9

That's not, we didn't talk about this, Catherine.

1:42.3

Yes, I know he's listening to this with my mother.

1:44.8

If I know him at all, he's listening to the future episode with my mother, so we will spare my mother.

1:50.2

But I had like two, and I still think of them very fondly.

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