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

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Quick Book Reviews with Philippa Hall
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May 25, 2026
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Summary

In this episode of  Quick Book Reviews , it is feedback week! Please send Philippa your thoughts on the podcast, you can email here: [email protected]. 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 Car…