Vogue Contributing Editor!! Plum Sykes, WIVES LIKE US

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Bestselling author Plum Sykes chats with Zibby (in person!) about WIVES LIKE US, a wickedly smart and impossibly funny novel about a grand English country house, a heartbroken American divorcee, three rich wives, two tycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs, and a bereaved butler. Plum describes her novel as a social satire that exposes the vulnerabilities and insecurities of rich women and their seemingly perfect lives. She also describes her writing process, her career evolution from Vogue It Girl to novelist, and the potential for a screen adaptation!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:08.1	I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.
0:14.2	I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more.
0:21.9	Learn more at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at
0:28.4	Zibby Readers.
0:31.4	Plum Sykes is the author of Wives Like Us.
0:34.4	You can check out my Instagram to see photos of when she came over for lunch the other
0:38.6	day when we did an in-person podcast. Plum was born in London, educated at Oxford, and is the author
0:44.6	of the novels Bergdorf Blondes, The Debutante Divorce, and Party Girls Die in Pearls. She is a
0:51.0	contributing editor at World Materials and American Vogue. She lives in the English
0:55.7	countryside with her daughters. And she was famously reported, along with her sister Lucy, to be one of
1:02.7	the it girls. We talk about that too. Welcome, Plum. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't
1:08.2	Have Time to read books to discuss your novel wives like us. Congratulations. Thank you so much, Libby. don't have time to read books to discuss your novel wives like
1:11.6	us congratulations thank you so much to be i'm so excited to be here oh i'm so excited to have you
1:17.0	because you know what you're the micro opra apparently don't you love that hashtag micro opra
1:22.4	i had never heard that and i'll take it thank you appreciate it congratulations appreciate it. Congratulations on your award last night. Thank you.
1:30.3	Thank you very much. Yes, big nights for both of us. Congratulations on publication day.
1:35.3	Thank you. Thank you. Publication sort of pre-day, which was yesterday. Yeah. We had a party and I
1:42.0	don't really drink usually and I said to you and my brother-in-law, I'm going to have two drinks tonight.
1:48.5	Do you know how many I had?
1:49.5	7,000.
1:53.0	So I've got a hangover today.
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