Episode 52. Libby Page, Author of The Lido, On Writing A Best-Selling Debut Novel, Picking Yourself Up After Rejection and Pursuing A Dream Career
Release Date: 04/16/2019
Ep. 80: Season 10 Listener Q&A
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As per tradition for our last episode of the season we are answering your listener questions! Tune in to hear our thoughts on shifting our daily routines for Autumn/Winter, our goals for our 30s and the best purchases we have made in 2020.
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Ep. 79: How to Navigate Career Pivots + Advice on Progressing Your Career in 2020 and Beyond
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In today’s episode we are sharing our career journeys and lifting the lid on our same-but-different career paths with blogging. Ella shares why she’s pivoted away from blogging and into a new career altogether, and Monica opens up about the multiple hats she wears outside of the blogging world. Plus we share our advice for navigating difficult work life scenarios including redundancy and graduating in 2020.
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Ep. 78: Fun Ways to Connect Whilst Distancing; with Friends, Partners and Colleagues
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How are you connecting with the people in your life right now? As we enter another lockdown here in the UK, staying in touch and maintaining connections are at the forefront of our minds right now.
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Ep. 77: Little Ways to Find Joy in Autumn/Winter and Healthy Habits We Are Adopting for the Cooler Months
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As we settle into autumn and look ahead to winter, we’ve been turning our attention to everyday joys, and learning to incorporate more healthy habits into our routines.
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Ep. 76: Selling Sunset, Sweet Magnolias and Tiger King: Our Thoughts on Shows We Have Binge-Watched in 2020
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What have you been up to for the majority of 2020? If your answer largely involves binge-watching TV shows then welcome to our club! In today’s episode we are diving deep into our TV obsessions of 2020. From the juiciest reality TV, through to the most bonkers cult series, we are sharing the shows that have soothed us and entertained us thus far this year.
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Ep. 75: What We Have Been Doing to Stay Sane (Most of the Time) This Year
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Today’s episode is a ‘COVID-19 catch-up’. Things have changed dramatically in the world since Season 9 of the show, when we were on the cusp of our first lockdown here in the UK.
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Ep. 74: Lockdown Q&A Special
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It’s time to wrap Season 9! As per tradition our last episode of the season is a listener Q&A! This episode is jam-packed with answers to your most-pressing questions on all things life, love, work and wellbeing.
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Ep. 73: How to Handle a Bad Day
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It’s inevitable — we all experience bad days. In this episode of Let’s Discuss we divvy up the severity our bad days into levels 1, 2 and 3.
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Ep. 72: Our Tips for Working From Home
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Working from home has been the norm for both of us for many years, but given the current state of the world it’s a working setup that many people are new to. We happened to record this episode just before lockdown was enforced in the UK, and now the timing for it could not feel more poignant.
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Ep. 71: An Interview With Artist Nina Brooke
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We’re over the moon to welcome artist Nina Brooke to the show today! Nina is an artist whose work we’ve admired for a long time — indeed Ella owns one of her beautiful beach prints — and we were thrilled when Nina agreed to come onto the show to discuss her career journey, advice for fellow artists, as well as tips for exploring her home area of Cornwall.
info_outlineWe are over the moon to welcome best-selling author (and Monica’s dear friend) Libby Page onto the show today! Libby’s first novel The Lido, was described as the “feel-good debut” of 2018, and quickly became a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.
The Lido has since been sold in more than 24 territories around the world, and a movie adaptation is also in development.
The Lido – which is titled Mornings with Rosemary in the US – tells the story of an unlikely friendship between 26-year-old journalist Kate, and 86-year-old Rosemary. Rosemary has been swimming at the Brixton Lido for most of her life. And when the Lido is threatened with closure, Kate and Rosemary forge a surprise alliance. In the pursuit to save the Lido, both women find themselves impassioned by the strength of the local community, and discover more about themselves than they ever expected. As author Sara Winman wrote The Lido is a “Joyous and uplifting debut - a testament to kindness and friendship”.
We both absolutely loved The Lido, and are so excited to chat to Libby about the process of writing her first novel – which comes out in paperback, this spring.
We hope you’ll love getting to know Libby, and be inspired by her story, as much as we are!
EPISODE 52 SHOW NOTES
Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party
Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue
Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty
Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice
Our show Instagram account - @LetsDiscussPodcast
Libby’s Instagram account - @LibbyPageWrites
EPISODE 52 SHOW LINKS
Libby’s debut novel The Lido (UK and elsewhere) Mornings With Rosemary (US)
Some of Libby’s favourite books:
When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce
Entanglement by Katie Mahood
Some of Libby’s favourite authors:
Joanne Harris
Zadie Smith
Elizabeth Strout
Jessie Burton
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