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

And so by the time I got married, I was pregnant, actually.

And so I I got pregnant and I sold everything.

my novel in the same week, I believe in June of 98.

And, and then we got married very quickly after we found out I was, I was pregnant and we'd been living together and it was, you know, it was a pretty solid thing.

And then we delayed because I got pregnant, we delayed the publication more than it would have been, you know, delayed.

And so I was, I think I was 36 when,

when my novel came out.

Yeah, I really am.

It's been a nice, manageable, steady pace.

Yeah.

I discovered her late.

I discovered her in grad school with To the Lighthouse.

I think I had this weird fear of Virginia Woolf.

Yes, I understand.

And a part of it is that...

American play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

And I was really scared.

I mean, it all goes so far back, but I was very scared of wolves when I was a child.

And so I think Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

And then knowing that she committed suicide, I just for some reason felt like I wouldn't like her.

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