Author Interviews
Our exclusive interviews with authors from The Girlfriend Book Club bring you behind-the-scenes scoops, juicy details, and the kind of literary chats you won’t find anywhere else. So go ahead—hit play and stay a while!
2025
‘The Story She Left Behind,’ a gripping tale inspired by Barbara Newhall Follett’s real-life mystery. Hear about the book’s inspirations, insights into historical details, and intriguing research process.
30:15
Fiona Davis’s eighth novel follows a narrative that moves through different time periods to explore a mystery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
25:52
This month, we were delighted to dive into the pages of Broken Country, a novel that captivated our more than 100,000-strong community.
28:20
2024
In this candid interview, author Chris Whitaker talks about two violent episodes in his past that inspired the main character of his latest novel.
27:13
Intrigue, female friendship, a 1950s boarding house and actual recipes all went into Quinn's post-pandemic book.
32:38
Catherine Newman’s ‘Sandwich’ is a hilarious, poignant, spot-on story about life with half-grown kids and fully aging parents.
30:59
2023
Barbara Kingsolver talks about writing Demon Copperhead, her Pulitzer Prize win, and capturing the opioid crisis with honesty.
47:51
Lisa See shares how a pandemic pivot led her to write Lady Tan’s Circle of Women—a deep dive into ancient Chinese medicine.
30:25
Ann Patchett shares how ‘Our Town’ shaped Tom Lake, her writing process, and the special story behind her 60th birthday.
35:44
2022
Simone St. James talks about her love for crime podcasts and how The Book of Cold Cases blends ghost stories and true crime.
30:49
Bonnie Garmus shares how Lessons in Chemistry went from a tough workday to a bestselling novel and Apple+ series.
25:50
Marianne Cronin, bestselling author of our July 2022 book, ‘The Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot,’ explains that a diagnosis at 22 and a small news segment on art therapy helped her pen her beautiful debut novel about a friendship between two very different women who, together, are 100 years old. She shares how the voices for each character came to be and who she would cast as the perfect Margot (Dame Judi Dench – we agree!).
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23:28
2021
Victoria Christopher Murray reveals the true story behind The Personal Librarian, about Belle da Costa Greene’s hidden identity.
31:46
Sally Hepworth reveals how her family’s neurodiversity inspired The Good Sister, a twisty thriller about sisterhood and secrets.
32:29
Janet Skeslien Charles shares the inspiring story of librarians in Nazi-occupied Paris and the bond between Odile and Lily.
28:26
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