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S16, Ep10 How To Fail: Margaret Atwood on wisdom, witchcraft and womanhood
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
The Failured Manuscript
I was writing it with this typewriter that you couldn't type an L because it jammed all the time. So all of the words with L's in them were missing their L's. In one of the episodes, a girl called Emma is almost dying in the Whirlpool and Rapids below Niagara Falls. And that was based on a real thing that happened to Lenny Goodings at Virago. She told me this story about herself when we were on our first book tour for Virago. I have met her. What an absolute legend. Anyway, she turns up in a story called The World Pool Rapids. I asked her for permission. I said, can I use it? Absolutely
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