Before becoming a New York Times bestselling author, producer, screenwriter, and podcaster,

Tim D. Locke was a college student studying abroad in Florence, where she met and fell in love with an Italian chef.

They married, adopted a daughter, and built a

beautiful life together. But just seven years later, Timby's husband was diagnosed with cancer and

tragically passed away. Timby shared that story of love, grief, and healing in her debut memoir

from scratch, which became a New York Times bestseller and a hit Netflix series starring Zoe

Saldania as Timby. Since then, Timby has found love again, remarried, and embraced the beauty

of a blended family. Now, in her immersive audio memoir, someday now, she returns to Sisley

for one last summer with her daughter before she leaves for college.

Blending her intimate narration with the sounds of Sicily, it's a beautiful story of motherhood,

memory, and the bittersweet art of releasing a child into adulthood. I sat down with Timby to talk about hope after heartbreak, savoring's life's most meaningful moments, finding love

after loss, and the

power of storytelling to heal. I'm Jenna Bush-Hager. Welcome to my podcast, Open Book with Jenna.

Thank you. Timby, I'm so happy you are here.

Oh, Jenna, I'm so happy to be here with you. And this is so great.

I mean, you've, you have written before, but this is sort of a different spin on a memoir.

Talk to me about Someday Now. So Someday Now is,

it's, first of all, an audio original. So it is a book that I wrote. Yes. I recorded sounds in Sicily. Wow. And so you have these original soundscape that's woven through this narrative,

which is really

about a summer at a moment in a mother's life and in a family's life when everything was

changing.

My daughter was about to go off to college.

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