Tessa Hadley, FREE LOVE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by best-selling writer Tessa Hadley to talk about her latest — and highly anticipated — novel, Free Love, which captures the emotions and consequences of a 1960s affair. The two talk about how Tessa has relaxed into her writing style over the course of her last four books, her journey from a lifelong writer and storyteller to published author in her forties, and what classic works of literature may have been like if authors always had access to the copy and paste feature. Zibby and Tessa also compare the different idiosyncrasies between British and American dialects.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. |
| 0:25.7 | Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. |
| 0:28.5 | And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books. |
| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.0 | Tessa Hadley is the author of Free Love, a novel. Tessa is also the author of four highly praised |
| 0:46.5 | novels, Accidents in the Home, which was long listed for the Guardian First Book Award, |
| 0:51.0 | Everything Will Be All Right, the Master Bedroom, and the London train, which was a New York |
| 0:55.4 | Times notable book. She's also the author of two short story collections, Sunstroke and |
| 1:00.1 | Married Love, both of which were New York Times notable books as well. Her stories regularly |
| 1:04.4 | appear in The New Yorker, and she lives in London. By the way, sometimes people ask me, |
| 1:09.9 | for Zibi books, my new publishing company, they say, you know, if you could have any book that was on the market now and have it be a Zibby book, what would it be? And I think that this book, Free Love by Tessa Hadley, is something that I really wish had been a Zibi book. So anyway, enjoy. Welcome, Tessa. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss free love. It's a pleasure to be here Zibi. Thank you so much for coming on Momsdon't have time to read books to discuss free love. |
| 1:29.1 | It's a pleasure to be here Zibi. Thank you for having me on the program. |
| 1:33.3 | Of course. I have to say, I posted that I was reading your book over the weekend and so many people were like, |
| 1:38.8 | oh my gosh, Tess Hathley has a new book out. That's so exciting. So you have a fan club over here. Lovely to hear. It's always been a bit of |
| 1:47.1 | a miracle to me how those books that in a way, as I write them, they feel very British, very English. |
| 1:53.6 | And I just love it that they obviously set off some reverberation that you in America respond to. |
| 2:00.5 | And that's such a privilege for me. |
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