Rosie Walsh on The One Day You Were My Husband, Emotional Thrillers and Writing Through Doubt

In this episode of Quick Book Reviews, it is feedback week! Please send Philippa your thoughts on the podcast, you can email here: quickbookreviews@outlook.com. You can find her on instagram at this account: @quick_book_reviews

Philippa chats to bestselling author Rosie Walsh about her gripping new novel The One Day You Were My Husband.

Rosie discusses the inspiration behind the book, the challenges of writing after major success, researching the life of a surgeon, and why this was the book she came closest to abandoning.

Philippa also reviews three very different books:

• The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
• A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz
• Deception by Jack Jordan

In this episode

• Rosie Walsh on The One Day You Were My Husband
• Writing emotional thrillers with huge twists
• The pressure of following bestselling novels
• Why this book was so difficult to write
• Balancing publicity, motherhood and creativity
• Writing under the name Lucy Robinson
• Researching medicine and surgery for fiction
• The importance of titles in publishing
• Philippa’s spoiler-free book reviews
• Feedback week for the podcast

About The One Day You Were My Husband

Carrie and Johan are newly married on a beach in Thailand when armed men arrive and take Johan away.

Twelve years later, Carrie has rebuilt her life. She is remarried, has children, and is preparing to return to work as a surgeon. Then she sees a familiar face online — Johan, alive in Stockholm, with a new life of his own.

Why did he never contact her?

What really happened in Thailand?

And should Carrie risk everything to find out?

Books reviewed

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride – Matt Dinniman

A wildly inventive, hilarious and action-packed instalment in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

A Deadly Episode – Anthony Horowitz

A clever, funny Hawthorne mystery set around the filming of The Word Is Murder.

Deception – Jack Jordan

A high-stakes thriller about desperate parents, impossible choices and a deadly game.

Books mentioned

• The One Day You Were My Husband – Rosie Walsh
• The Love of My Life – Rosie Walsh
• Ghosted / The Man Who Didn’t Call – Rosie Walsh
• The Things You’ll Never Know – Ashley Audrain
• The Eye of the Bedlam Bride – Matt Dinniman
• A Deadly Episode – Anthony Horowitz
• Deception – Jack Jordan

Biscuit verdict

No biscuits for Rosie Walsh — but there is a memorable discussion of cold sliced hard-boiled eggs, fruit, yogurt and a life without sugar.

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