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S2, Ep1 How to Fail: Jessie Burton

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Failed to Write a Title?

Jessie Burton: I've never been able to name any of my book. It's fun in fiction. You like writing characters who are perhaps, I think you write more sort of nuance fiction than mine issort of like these sort of archetypes or fantasy types. Certainly in the news there was this character called Marjorie Quick who's kind of my ideal older self but not in a really obnoxious way. And I do like creating those characters who are kind of aspirational to that behavior. So it's always heartening to me when they stick to a character who isn't worried about everyone liking her.

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