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How We Live Now with Katherine May cover image

Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body

How We Live Now with Katherine May

CHAPTER

The Terror of Writing Memoirs

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

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