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Paul McKenna's positivity podcast.

Hello, this is Paul McKenna, and welcome to the positivity podcast.

My objective is to interview the most interesting people in the world, and in the next 30 minutes, get insights and even discover how it is that they do what they do, what makes them unique and fascinating, their success

mindset, and certainly what keeps them positive. My guest today has been writing for over 45

years and is well known for her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction. She's been

described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commentators

writing fiction today. She's an international bestselling author. I'm talking today with Joanna Trollope.

You don't need to express an opinion about all kinds of things. You just need to quietly get on

with achieving it. And I think that, you know, the keep calm and carry on thing is no bad maxim.

When you have your, you've lost a job or you have your heartbroken, go and polish the taps.

You know, you can't control that, can't you?

I remember somebody saying to me years and years ago that actually inspiration was spreading the bills out on the kitchen table.

Lovely to see you. Very nice to be here, I can tell you.

Can I ask you, did you have a childhood dream or ambition to be a writer?

No, no, no, no.

I mean, the only thing about my childhood, because I was born towards the end of the last war,

I didn't know my father until I was nearly four, I suppose.

We never, because he didn't come back from India till then.

I think our childhood was very advantage in all kinds of ways

because it was, you know, you just had what you had,

which was virtually nothing.

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