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The Importance of Motherhood
I had written down one of the themes I felt from your book. And also that it was a love letter to your own mum as well, in bits of it. There was a whole, because my first draft of this was over 200,000 words. When I saw it printed out my the assistant prints out, which obviously, as you know, in publishing world, they do not print out that many words lightly. So paper mindful, rightly so, then they whacked it on and I felt this kind of like, oh my god, this is no one would ever read this. It's just too much. But there was a massive section of it, which was a conversation between