Minisode: An Interview with "All the Lonely People" Author Mike Gayle

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today's spoiler-free minisode includes a conversation between Kaytee and author Mike Gayle. Mike is the author of All the Lonely People, his seventeenth novel, and one that totally captured my heart. You've heard me gush about the book, now listen to my conversation with Mike to hear about:

Where Hubert Bird came from
The Windrush generation and his parents
A committee against loneliness
The filling and emptying of a home
How the book landed during the pandemic
Captain Tom and small things with big impact
Entering the conversation about race
Being pigeonholed as an author
Winning the RNA Award for writer of the year
Reading expanding us as humans

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All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

Captain Tom

The Romance Novelist Association - Achievement Award

This is a great article about that win

Naïve. Super by Erland Loe

Connect with Mike: on Instagram at @mikegaylethenovelist, on Facebook, Twitter or at his website

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi readers, welcome to another mini-sode of the currently reading podcast. We haven't
0:14.2	done one in a long time and we are glad you're here. I am Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom
0:18.7	of four living in New Mexico and I'm here today with Mike Gail. Mike is the author of
0:23.9	17 novels and has been writing for well over two decades. Today, we're here to discuss
0:29.4	his most recent release, All the Lonely People, which completely captured my heart. He
0:34.6	lives in Birmingham with his wife and daughters. Mike, welcome to currently reading. Thank
0:39.4	you very much for having me on. Thank you so much to see you. Okay, you'll be with you.
0:43.5	Lovely to see you as well. Yes, be together online as we do in the age of COVID. And I know
0:49.8	our listeners are always very excited when I get to bring somebody onto the show that has
0:53.5	a non-US access. So please, to hear your voices. Thank you very much. I shall try to sound
0:59.4	my most two grounds. Oh, perfect. I love that. Okay, first before we get into questions
1:06.2	that I have about writing and your characters and everything I fell in love with about your
1:10.4	book, let's talk a little bit about all the lonely people. As you know, because I mess
1:15.0	into you as soon as I finished, I'm not ashamed to admit. And our listeners already know
1:19.5	that I am a big fan of crying in books. I love to sob at the end. I love a curmudgeon
1:27.0	book. And this one delivered in spades. So I would love for you to help our listeners
1:32.5	avoid spoilers and tell them how you describe this latest novel of yours. Okay, so all
1:38.0	the lonely people is about an 84 year old penchant called Hubert Bird. Every week he speaks
1:42.8	to his daughter who lives in Australia. And he paints this wonderful picture of this
1:47.8	wonderful retirement. He's got these three friends called Dossie, Dennis and Harvey. And
1:52.7	they get up to all sorts of antics and they're always going out and doing things. The only
1:56.3	thing is that Hubert isn't actually telling the truth. The truth is that Hubert spends
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