Sally starts by telling us the tale of the Boiler That Went Bang in the Night, and the Bird That Never Was. She’s preparing a zoom class for some schoolchildren which draws on her first book of memoirs – or anti-memoirs, as she prefers to call them – called Girl With Dove. Sally pulls out the book's manuscript and we hear about her upbringing in a slum area on the south coast, and her earliest memories of her granny and Mum, growing roses on a scrubby patch of land. She tells us about her baby brother David, and what happened to him; an event which changed all their lives.
Further Reading
There’s only one book referred to in this week’s episode – Sally’s own book, Girl With Dove. You can find out more about it here:
https://sallybayley.com/girl-with-dove
The producer of the podcast is Andrew Smith: https://www.fleetingyearfilms.com
The extra voice in this episode is Emma Fielding. A number of the music tracks were composed and performed by Simon Turner.
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A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley