#276 OLIVE series: Clover Stroud's Wild & Sleepless Nights (#3)

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Hello and welcome to this special OLIVE mini series — all around the topic of my debut novel OLIVE which is out TODAY! In lieu of a launch party, I’ve decided to release this 4-part series on 4 different women’s varying experiences and attitudes towards motherhood, based on the topics within the book.

The novel centres around Olive and her three best friends, Bea, Cecily and Isla. Bea is a mum of 3 who loves her busy chaotic home, Cecily is newly pregnant feeling apprehensive and excited, Isla is struggling with her fertility and undergoing IVF treatment. Olive knows that having children is not for her and recently broke up with her longterm boyfriend because he wanted to try for a baby and she didn’t — and this book explores the obstacle course of adulthood, navigating key life milestones, and how their friendships grow and change as they each figure out their own paths.

My guest is Clover Stroud is an author and journalist and mother of 5 - who writes for the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Conde Nast Traveller among others. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and five children. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Her second book My Wild and Sleepless Nights — which examines what it means to be a mother — the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair which we talk about it all in this episode.

You can order Clover's book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Wild-Sleepless-Nights-Mothers/dp/0857525905/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1595429479&refinements=p_27%3AClover+Stroud&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Clover+Stroud

Thanks for listening and you can now buy OLIVE from your favourite retailer.

Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/olive/emma-gannon/9780008382728

Hive: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Emma-Gannon/Olive/24224499

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Olive-Emma-Gannon/dp/0008382727/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570034665&sr=1-5&tag=smarturl-gb-21

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to my Olive special mini series all around the topic of my
1:09.0	debut novel Olive which is out today a very very exciting moment because I've been working on the book for
1:15.3	about two years so the day is finally here so to celebrate I've decided to release
1:20.6	this four-part series on four very different women and their
1:24.7	varying experiences and attitudes towards motherhood. The novel centers around
1:29.0	Olive who is child-free by choice and she is figuring out her own path and her three best friends B
1:35.6	Cessily and Eilah are all figuring out their version of motherhood including busy houses
1:41.6	IVF treatments and new pregnancy.
1:45.7	So this episode of the mini series
1:48.9	is with Clover Stroud, who is an author and journalist and mother of five who writes for the Sunday Times
1:55.9	the Daily Telegraph, Conde Nast Traveller and she is the author of the Wild Other
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