Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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The Three Things That Helped Me Survive
"I'd already written Running Like a Girl which was about being a terrible runner but embracing it anyway. Then I wrote Lee Pin which was going to sort of in some ways replicate running like a girl and instead of doing lots of marathons I was going to do lots of long swims," she says. "And then when I thought I had it made my son was born and everything was looking great. And it turned out that actually three things happened to me in quite close succession which I don't think I could have survived even though having three quite intense things happening so quickly was awful."
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