Bonus Episode: We Can Do Better Than This with Amelia Abraham
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We do like to treat you here at Homo Sapiens, so why not get your Monday off to a flyer with a Culture Club special, it's writer extraordinaire, Amelia Abraham. She has to keep her voice down occasionally though, because she’s recording live from her girlfriend’s parents and it’s the first time she’s met them! We had a right laugh, chatting about her wonderful book ‘We Can Do Better Than This’, the brilliant but exhausting ‘Euphoria’ and how she’s learnt to love her mother’s ways.
In other exciting news, we have an actual LIVE event. We will be on stage with the incredible Deborah Frances-White for a live recording of The Guilty Homo Sapien, a Homo Sapiens and Guily Feminist podcast crossover event! The ticket link is below, snap them up now so you don't miss out! Chris x
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| 0:22.6 | Listeners, I'm sitting in my garden. |
| 0:24.8 | It feels lovely and sunny. |
| 0:25.8 | I feel like I'm on holiday, if I'm honest, |
| 0:27.8 | which is very apt, because I've got some more holiday reading for you. |
| 0:31.4 | This episode of Homo sapient is sponsored by Better Left Unsaid |
| 0:35.4 | from Too Fy L Armored, author of the acclaimed novel This Way Out. |
| 0:39.4 | Better Left Unsaid is about three siblings navigating life after their mother's death. |
| 0:43.6 | They're all living separate lives, |
| 0:45.6 | trying to live up to their last promises they each made to their mother. |
| 0:49.0 | Until a viral news piece throws an unwanted spotlight on the family |
| 0:53.2 | and forces the siblings back into each other's lives. |
| 0:56.4 | Three siblings, three promises, three lifetimes of saying all the wrong things. |
| 1:00.4 | Gosh, it feels familiar. |
| 1:01.8 | I'll leave it at that for now. |
| 1:03.4 | It's a really good read. |
| 1:05.0 | The novel is available at Amazon.co.uk forward slash Homo sapiens. |
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