Rosie Walsh and Kelly Yang
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Rosie Walsh, The One Day You Were My Husband
Loss, love, expectations and mystery abound in Rosie Walsh’s latest novel about a woman whose husband vanishes on their wedding night. We spoke about how past traumas inform narratives, the importance of a good first chapter, and more!
Aging Reversal?! Kelly Yang on The Take (and Front Desk!!)
My son and I read Front Desk together two summers ago. When I found out blockbuster author Kelly Yang had written a novel for adults, I couldn’t wait to read it! It’s an immersive story about aging, ambition, loyalty, family, and friendship with a unique angle: what if there was a way to reverse aging but in so doing, you sped up someone else’s?! Hear how Kelly ended up graduating college at an absurdly young age, her own family’s origin story, and why writing matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Today is a two-and-one episode with two fabulous authors. First up, Rosie Walsh, |
| 0:50.7 | is the author of The One Day You Were My Husband. Rosie has lived and traveled all over the world working as a documentary producer and writer. |
| 0:58.1 | Her two previous novels, Ghosted, and The Love of My Life, were New York Times bestsellers and have sold nearly two million copies worldwide. |
| 1:05.1 | The One Day You Are My Husband is her third novel. |
| 1:07.3 | She lives in Devon, UK, with her partner and two children. |
| 1:10.2 | Welcome, Rosie. I am so excited |
| 1:12.3 | to have you back after a couple years to talk about your latest book, which per usual, |
| 1:18.4 | is filled with twists and turns and heartbreak and emotion and all the good things that you |
| 1:24.4 | look for in a book. Why don't you tell listeners what it's about? |
| 1:28.2 | Of course. And it's lovely to be here. It sort of feels like having a chat with an old friend now. |
| 1:33.7 | Yeah. So the one day you were my husband. I mean, I sort of think all of my books really, I can't |
| 1:39.1 | start writing them unless I've got a pretty much like a one-line elevator pitch. |
| 1:44.1 | And the elevator pitch for this one was two people get married on a beach in Thailand. |
| 1:49.5 | They're dancing under a starlit sky when suddenly the beach is filled with armed men |
| 1:54.1 | who take the groom away, never to be seen again. |
| 1:56.3 | That's what I started with. |
| 1:57.9 | And for a long time, that's what I had. |
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