Lily King

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769 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Women's Podcast · Author Lily King on the unexpected success of ‘Heart the Lover’ · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh, thank you.

I just it's just shocking every time.

I just didn't expect it.

You know, you write these things in your slippers and your sweats and.

You think most 90 percent of the time you're failing and it will never, ever, ever see the light of day.

I remember having a conversation with my agent just almost whimpering, saying, I don't want to publish a bad book.

And she was like, we're not going to let you publish a bad book.

And I took so much solace in that as if she could really do anything about it.

But I just I there are a lot of places where I struggled in this book.

And so it's it's it's really been extraordinary just to have it published and then to have people feel something for it.

It's my sixth novel, my seventh book.

Yeah.

I also feel really grateful that this didn't happen with my first book, to be honest.

In what way?

I just...

I've really enjoyed the kind of slow and steady.

I did not have a personality that could have handled any kind of quote-unquote success in my... I mean, you know, I had success because I got published and I did have some readers.

But I don't think...

You know, the onslaught would have been good for me or or or my writing in the future.

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