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Leah Hazard on changing career after having her first child

How We Live Now with Katherine May

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Hard Push: A Novel About Sisterhood and Motherhood

When I went to watch this particular transplant in Sweden in November, it was two sisters on the table. So that started off as the premise. And now it's become this thing, this monster,. This novel that's it's about what it means to be a sister, but also to be a mother. It's about women's relationships with their bodies. It'sAbout Scotland, strangely enough. I've found myself researching all kinds of flora of Scottish islands in 11th century monasteries and all kinds of weird stuff where I never thought it would take me. But it's great. When I'm not hating what I write, I'm loving it. I'm loving the process.

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