Tell us about your new novel, One of Us?
It’s about why we fall in love with the people who damage us – and sometimes elect them too. It’s about identity, outsiders, belonging, class, misogyny and the irrepressibility of hope. It’s about how entitlement can corrupt and how true connection can redeem. It’s also funny (I think?).
You’re doing an event at the Dublin Book Festival with my colleague Róisín Ingle. What can the audience expect?
A wonderful conversation with plenty of tangents. I adore Róisín and any time we chat, we might start talking about the book but we’ll end up discussing psychics, reality TV and what life really means.
Tell us about your chart-topping podcast, How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, and the tie-in books, How to Fail and Failosophy.
I launched the podcast in July 2018 when I felt like a total failure in my personal life – divorced, single at 39 and in the trenches of fertility treatment. I wanted to see how other people coped with failure and to turn the traditional interview format (chatting to celebrities about all their fantastic successes) on its
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