Richard Roper, WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by editor and author Richard Roper to discuss his latest novel, When We Were Young, which was inspired by a real trip he took with his friends. The two talk about his intentional journey to becoming an editor and his accidental journey to becoming an author, as well as which books he currently works on at Headline Publishers in the UK. Richard also shares which author is his greatest inspiration, why he decided to structure the novel from two points of view observing the same moments, and what inspired his next novel.
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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, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
| 0:49.4 | You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com |
| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Richard Roper is the author of When We Were Young. |
| 1:02.1 | He is a nonfiction editor at Headline, an imprint of Hachette, UK. |
| 1:06.1 | He lives in London and is the author of Something to Live for. |
| 1:09.3 | Welcome, Richard. Thank you so much for coming on. Moms Don Have Time to Read Books to discuss when we were young, a novel. Thanks for having me. It's my pleasure. Okay, can you please tell listeners what your book is about and what inspired you to write it? And I'm sorry, these are those questions. You've probably answered a million times, but I do think it's useful for listeners to hear and get a framework and then we can dive in. |
| 1:31.0 | No, no, it has to be done, yes. |
| 1:32.6 | The idea for the book came from a few years ago when I decided to go on holiday by myself in England |
| 1:41.6 | and I wanted to do something vaguely adventurous that involved walking. |
| 1:46.9 | But I also have, I love walking, but I've got a terrible sense of direction. |
| 1:50.9 | So the one idea that appealed to me was the idea of following something called the Thames Path, |
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