Patti Callahan Henry, THE SECRET BOOK OF FLORA LEA
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Julie Chavez chats with New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry about The Secret Book of Flora Lea, an enchanting and refreshingly original novel about a woman who discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, including long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during WWII. Patti talks about her spectacular audiobook (narrated by actress Cynthia Erivo!) and then reveals how this story came to be. She also discusses the book’s themes (from young love to the universality of story-telling), how she finds meaning in her daily life, and what she loves most about being a writer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
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| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
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| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.5 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Patty Callahan, Henry, is the author of the secret book |
| 1:06.0 | of Flora Lee, a novel. This episode is guest hosted by Julie Chavez, author of the upcoming Zibby Books title, Everyone But Myself and host of Ask a novel. This episode is guest hosted by Julie Chavez, author of the upcoming Zibi Books title, |
| 1:12.3 | Everyone but Myself and host of Ask a Librarian. Patty is a New York Times, Globe and Mail, |
| 1:18.2 | and USA Today best-selling author of 17 novels, including her newest The Secret Book of Flora Lee. |
| 1:23.1 | She's also a podcast host of original content for her novels Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis. |
| 1:28.7 | She is the recipient of the Christie Award, Book of the Year, the Harper Lee Distinguished |
| 1:32.8 | Writer of the Year, and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for becoming Mrs. Lewis. |
| 1:37.6 | She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction Live Web Show and podcast. |
| 1:43.5 | Patty also is a contributor to the |
| 1:45.2 | monthly Life Lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. She has been published in numerous anthologies, |
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