Mitch Albom, TWICE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Totally Booked: LIVE! In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), Zibby interviews America’s favorite storyteller, Mitch Albom, about his new novel, TWICE, a magical and deeply moving story about regret, love, and second chances. Mitch shares how the idea came to him (in the shower!), the themes that drive his work, and how his own experiences with loss and his orphanage in Haiti inspired the book’s emotional core. Together, they discuss the novel’s time-bending premise, its detective storyline, the limits of love, and the lesson at its heart: if we were always given second chances, we’d never learn a thing.
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| 0:00.0 | They did it again. Flower, instead of flowers, on my birthday. And 95 minutes late, but it's hard to leave when you've shared so much. Your postcode, your gluten intolerance. Then I saw it. 25% off your first Akado shop, plus free delivery. And I just knew I'd found the online supermarket of my dreams. |
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| 0:30.1 | Sophie Tom and the kids are standing by the luggage carousel waiting for Sophie's bag. |
| 0:34.0 | Looks like she's going to be wearing Tom's clothes for a week. |
| 0:36.3 | But she's not worried. |
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| 1:04.2 | That there is a great night's sleep. |
| 1:09.3 | And when Susan wakes up, she's going to get to enjoy delicious unlimited breakfast. |
| 1:13.6 | Or, if that super comfy bed is just too hard to leave, Susan can enjoy a midday checkout. |
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| 1:26.6 | Breakfast subject to availability. T's and |
| 1:29.5 | Cs apply. Welcome to Totally Booked Live. I am so excited to be here today with Mitch Album, |
| 1:39.9 | whose new book is called Twice a novel. Congratulations. Hi. |
| 1:45.1 | Nice to be here. |
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