with Jennifer Niven

Our guest this week is the author of the New York Times and international bestsellers ‘Holding Up the Universe’ and ‘All the Bright Places’, the latter of which was a smash Netflix film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith. Her books have been translated into 75 languages and have won literary awards around the world. In 2000, she started writing full-time, and has released nonfiction and fiction, both historical and contemporary, adult and Young Adult. Her books all share a common theme: they are stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things.Our guest also oversees the literary and lifestyle web magazine, Germ, for people of high school age and beyond, which celebrates beginnings, futures, and everything in between. As an author, she has always tackled provocative subjects that are personal to her such as suicide and body image, and now she turns her attention to sex and the concept of losing your virginity, in her newest novel ‘Breathless’, set to be released on the 29th September. This is her most personal novel yet, being inspired by her parents’ divorce as a teenager, and her own whirlwind romance with her husband who she met in 2018 on a remote Georgia island, whilst seeking inspiration for her novel. Thank you to Jennifer for taking the time to join us this week and to Penguin. BREATHLESS by Jennifer Niven is out on 29th September and is published by Penguin in paperback, RRP £7.99.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/getting-personal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.