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

You know, yeah, I was very, very protected from all of that.

And then my mother left and I had to visit my dad every weekend.

And so then he got together very quickly.

I think he was already with her when my mom left, much to her relief.

He married another alcoholic.

And so...

Then things became really, really crazy over at his house.

And they were really, you know, they were angry and they fought a lot.

And she had three little kids and I kind of tried to protect them, but was kind of like on my own and

I don't know, it wasn't good.

And then my mom married a man whose wife had just died the year before and he had seven children.

And then my dad's second wife left him and he married another woman who's actually my godmother and my mother's college roommate.

So it was very, very, very chaotic.

I had so many families.

And they would change.

I mean, first, you know, my dad was married to the alcoholic woman, and then he married this kind of church lady woman, you know, who was who, you know, I mean, they couldn't have been night or day.

And so the whole culture of the family changed very quickly.

And I really think that that is why I became a writer is because I really had to adapt to these very different cultures very quickly.

And I had to

I had to always be watching very attentively.

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