Claire Lynch, SMALL: On Motherhoods

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Zibby is joined by professor Claire Lynch to talk about her debut memoir, Small, which she wrote while in lockdown. The two discuss some of the formative experiences Claire and her wife went through on their fertility and subsequent parenthood journey, as well as how she managed to construct a memoir that reads like poetry. Claire also shares what parents expecting twins should do to prepare themselves, why she finds it easier to reveal her emotions in writing rather than face-to-face, and what style of writing she wants to try next.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:07.5	And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.
0:12.7	Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.
0:20.5	Comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.
0:23.8	I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.
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0:34.3	And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.
0:41.5	Claire Lynch is the author of Small on Motherhoods. Claire works as a university lecturer and is the
0:46.6	author of two academic books and numerous scholarly articles and chapters. Claire's four
0:51.4	thought talk, The Other Mother, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020,
0:56.8	and her first piece of narrative nonfiction took second place in the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize in 2017.
1:03.5	She was a shortlisted writer for the Penguin Random House Right Now scheme in 2018,
1:08.0	and a long-listed writer for the Hintraland Nonfiction Prize in 2019.
1:12.1	Small is her first book for a general audience.
1:14.6	Welcome, Claire.
1:15.5	Thank you so much for coming on moms.
1:17.3	Don't have time to read books to discuss Small on motherhoods.
1:21.2	Well, thank you so much for having me.
1:22.5	It's a real pleasure.
1:23.7	Claire, this is one of the most beautiful books about motherhood, infertility, miscarriage, having kids, new birth, fear, love, all of it wrapped into one.
1:35.4	It's like poetic and beautiful and I loved it.
1:38.7	Thank you so much. I was really kind of you to say. It's very strange in a way to be talking about it because it was written in
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