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Sarah Bakewell with Isy Suttie

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What's the Most Exciting Stage of Writing?

Sarah, what's the most exciting stage of writing from your point of view? I love getting that expert eye of people who know what stories are all about and how they work. And then there comes the bit where you have to throw out an awful lot of things that I thought were going to be in the book because it just becomes too unwieldy. But even that is fun because that's the bit when you're starting to see the shape that it's taking. So I kind of enjoy all of it, I would say.

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