The Terror of Writing Memoirs

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I always think I should become a gardener not like an actual professional gardener but just somebody who does their garden occasionally it's not my skill in life it should be by rights. Everything I plant dies in fact I'm just looking into my garden at the moment and now we've had some builders in and they've put a load of wood on top of my garden which I know didn't look like much. have to do quite hard that's allYeah but I mean it's weird you would think that writing memoir would be as exposing as it can get but then as with the MP tweets thing there's there's lingering terror before the publication of a novel where you think oh my god are

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to journalist and writer Alexandra Heminsley, author of Some Body to Love. After infertility treatment, a challenging pregnancy and a sexual assault, Alex found her relationship drifting apart for reasons she couldn’t fully understand. But when her partner finally disclosed that they wanted to transition to being a woman, Alex had to come to terms with something she never expected: being part of a LBTQIA+ family. In this conversation, she explores her compassionate response to her former partner’s needs, how it has changed her viewpoint on life, and how life can be remade in the face of the unexpected.

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