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Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Daisy Buchanan, an award-winning

journalist, author, and broadcaster. She's written for every major newspaper and magazine in the UK,

and she hosts the brilliant Bookage podcast, Your Booked, where she interviews legendary writers

from all over the world about how they're reading shapes their work and their lives.

She's the author of How to Be a Grown Up, The Sisterhood, and The Two Novels Insatiable

and Careering. Careering is about to come out, or it might be out now, depending on when

this episode airs, but I've known Daisy for a really long time and we used to work together

back in the day, and it's been amazing watching her career over the last decade bloom,

and for her writing to go in many different directions. In this episode we discuss her career as a whole,

we also dig into the themes in Careering, her new novel, all about the toxic relationship we have

with our jobs. I know a lot of people leave jobs, not necessarily because of the job itself,

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