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S16, Ep10 How To Fail: Margaret Atwood on wisdom, witchcraft and womanhood

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Old Babes in the Wood, a Short Story Collection

I want to talk a little bit about your magnificent short story collection, Old Babes in the Wood. At the heart of the collection of these seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades. And I wanted to ask you a bit about your writing of grief and what that feels like for you. Well, like writing anything else amongst other things. I think of it as writing life that may happen to have grief in it. So yes, it's a thing that happens particularly if you're lucky enough to get older because let us consider the alternative.

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