Paula Hawkins, A SLOW FIRE BURNING: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Paula Hawkins, the bestselling author of The Girl on the Train, joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel, A Slow Fire Burning which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Paula shares how she found her way to thriller writing after working as a business journalist and a rom-com ghostwriter for years, as well as why she has always been drawn to darker stories. The two also talk about how Paula's writing process helps her create such intriguing characters, where she used to go pre-pandemic when she needed inspiration, and what she wants to do next that's not writing.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
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0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.0	Paula Hawkins is the author of a slow burning fire, a novel. Paula worked as a journalist for 15 years before turning her hand to
0:45.1	fiction. She is the author of two number one New York Times bestselling novels, Into the Water,
0:51.0	and The Girl on the Train. An international number one bestseller, The Girl on the Train, has sold over 23 million copies worldwide and has been adapted into a major motion picture, which I saw.
1:03.0	Hawkins was born in Zimbabwe and now lives in London.
1:06.8	Welcome, Paula. Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss a slow fire burning.
1:12.2	Thank you so much for having me. It's my pleasure. By the way, right yesterday, it came out as, I think, an Amazon book club and Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Is that what it was?
1:22.3	You may well be right. I don't know. Yes, I think that sounds right.
1:26.5	Okay. Well, whatever. It sounded good. So good news is all around.
1:31.1	Paula, I know you're a wonderful established best-selling author already because of your other books,
1:36.2	but would you mind telling listeners what a slow fire burning is about?
1:40.6	So it's a story of revenge, deceit, and murder inevitably.
1:46.4	And at the heart of it, there's three very intriguing women who may or may not be involved.
1:51.4	So the novel opens with a body is discovered on a houseboat on the Regents Canal in London.
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