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

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at Zibby Owens. Today is number eight in the 10 most downloaded totally booked episodes

of 2025. We're using these two weeks to wet your appetite for those episodes you may have missed,

so enjoy. Loretta Rothschild is the author of Finding Grace, a novel. Loretta is originally from

London and currently splits her time between the UK and Italy. She lives with her husband,

Nat, their young son, and their beloved dogs. Finding Grace is her debut novel, and by the way,

I am absolutely obsessed and love this book so much. Welcome, Loretta. Thank you so much for coming

on Totally Booked with Zibby. I am so obsessed with your book, as you saw from my Instagram,

and now all these people want to read it right now and are so annoyed that I wrote all that

before it is available. But finding grace,

oh my gosh, it's so good. Congratulations. Oh, that's so nice. I was very touched by your post.

It's all very new. So it's so nice when someone even knows your book exists, let alone likes it.

So that was really touching. So thank you. I didn't just like it. It's so good. The writing is so good.

The plot is so good. The emotions. Like, I just, I was so sad. I didn't, as I got towards the

end, I just, like, wanted to slow down, so I didn't lose the characters. And yet, then I also

had to speed up to see what was going to happen. And now I have so many questions, but maybe I'll have to ask you offline. So, I don't lose the characters. And yet then I also had to speed up to see what was going to happen.

And now I have so many questions, but maybe I'll have to ask you offline so I don't give anything away. Yes, I know. It's a really tough book to talk about. And we've discovered this because the most exciting thing is knowing nothing about it. Yes. And that's been something that there's, you know, my agent and my editor, Sarah,

we just sort of sit and go, um, so what can we say? And it's, it's not easy. I have to say,

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