Monica Ali, LOVE MARRIAGE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"Writing is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration." Zibby is joined by bestselling novelist Monica Ali to discuss her first book in ten years, Love Marriage. Monica shares how this book initially started as two separate stories that she ultimately intertwined, as well as the amount of research she conducted to make the medical elements of this novel seem as realistic as possible. The two also talk about how this story is all about sex (albeit in a non-Fifty Shades of Grey way), why Monica has a lot of sympathy for the book's sometimes annoying mother-in-law, and what it has been like for Monica to write the TV adaption of this project.
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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, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.3 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.5 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Monica Ali is the author of Love, Marriage, a novel. |
| 1:02.6 | Her best-selling work has been translated into 26 languages. |
| 1:06.9 | She's the author of five books, Brick Lane, Alan Tejo Blue, in the kitchen, untold story, and now love marriage. |
| 1:14.6 | Monica is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2003 was named as one of Granta's |
| 1:19.9 | best of young British novelists. She has been nominated for, among others, the Booker Prize, |
| 1:25.7 | the George Orwell Prize, the Commonwealth Writers |
| 1:27.8 | Prize, and in the U.S. has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award |
| 1:32.4 | and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has taught creative writing at Columbia |
| 1:37.1 | University, where she was a visiting professor, and from 2015 to 2018, she was a distinguished |
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