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S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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I've Never Made Up My Quarrel With My Sister

I knew I had to get away from the degree to which she controlled both myself and my sister. So it was complicated and sort of predictable. It's now in a hundred novels by frustrated women. She died of cancer, she died of leukemia when I was what in my mid-twenties. The grief is terrible if you've never made up your quarrels, and I had never made up my quarrel with her. so I was enormously bereft by her death. And I knew that something had gone which could never be fulfilled.

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