Hello, Guilty Feminist. It's Deborah. I have written a book called Six Conversations

We Are Scared to Have and I'm coming on a UK book tour. Since I put this book to bed,

it has become more and more relevant and I swear to God I'd much rather have a much less

relevant book in a much better world, but here we are.

I actually did take some time out of the spotlight,

and I did fewer live guilty feminist shows to write this book because I just took a gamble that this was the best thing I had to say right now.

And you can't just riff this on a podcast.

This is very nuanced.

It's detailed.

Hopefully it's entertaining and page

turning, but I also have had a lot of academics help me work on it. And I've really tried to be

rigorous in what I'm saying. And you can only do it at that level in a book. I really think,

firstly, we need to look at why the left has become so fragmented and why the left and

the right has become so polarised. But also what can we do about it? What practical things?

Because what we are doing is not working. The far right is rising. And I'm not blaming us for

the rise of the far right, but I am saying we need to proceed differently. I really hope that you enjoy the book.

I hope it's entertaining and a page turner as well as being something that is rigorous.

I'm very, very honoured and touched, but I really hope it helps in a practical way to have

been given endorsements by early readers such as David Tennant and Tom Allen and Gillian Anderson,

Emma Thompson, and Gillian Anderson very kindly said it's an essential guide to nuanced and

intricate conversations in a polarised world. Not that I've memorized the quote that Julian

Anderson gave me, but I've only met her once and I was so moved and heartened and encouraged,

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