Transcript
Bianca Murray (0:00)
Foreign. Hi there and welcome to our show the Shit no one tells you about writing. I'm best selling author Bianca Murray and I'm joined by Cece Lera of Wendy Sherman Associates and Carly Waters of P.S. literary. Hi everyone. Today's guest is an internationally best selling author whose novels have been translated into more than 30 languages. Her debut, the Flat Share, sold over a million copies and changed her life completely. All five of her subsequent novels, the Switch, the Road Trip, the no show, the Wake Up Call and Swept Away have been instant Sunday Times bestsellers. She writes her books in the English countryside with a very badly behaved golden retriever for company. If she's not in her writing shed, you'll probably find her chasing a toddler with a strong coffee in hand. It's my pleasure to welcome back Beth o'. Leary. Beth, welcome back. Hel.
Beth O'Leary (1:01)
Thank you for having me again.
Bianca Murray (1:03)
Yes. And thank you for joining us. I know it's late in the evening there and I know that pre pub everything is so busy. So I'm sure you've had a really busy day and you're still joining us, so we appreciate it. So for our listeners who are not watching on YouTube and you really should watch on YouTube because we have some really funny moments that you see on camera that you don't necessarily hear or will see on the podcast. What I'm holding up here is Beth's book, the Name Game. Lovely, lovely cover. It looks a bit battered. I'm really, I'm starting to realize that I'm quite rough on books after I finish reading them, they look really worse for weight. Yeah, I say the same but other authors freak out. So really lovely cover. Let me give you some of the flat copy and then we're going to dive in. So a man and a woman with the same name are looking for a fresh start, only to discover they've landed the same job in this charming new romance by best selling author Beth o'. Leary. Charlie couldn't be happier to take the job of farm shop manager on the remote wild isle of Ormer. She's grieving a little lost and in desperate need of a fresh start. Jones has come out of a difficult breakup and is looking forward to some peace away from the noise of his city life. Moving to Ormer couldn't have come at a better time. But when Charlie Jones and Charlie Jones both turn up at Alma's one and only farm shop claiming to have been offered the role of manager, everyone is baffled. How could this have happened? And just who is the real Charlie Jones? Okay, so this is going to be such a tough book to talk about.
Beth O'Leary (2:47)
And you know what? This is one of my first interviews about it and I'm so worried I'm going to say something I shouldn't because, yes, there's some surprises in there.
