Elizabeth Day - Magpie, the Greatest Friendships, and Exploring the Writing Process

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🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today's guest is Elizabeth Day, once again. I know nobody is complaining about that, as her prior episode on Slo Mo is one of the most downloaded of all time. And I absolutely adore this woman and she's one of my favorite people in the world. Like last time, we recorded this on Instagram Live, so please forgive any audio issues.As many of you know, I appeared on Elizabeth's podcast, How to Fail, earlier in 2020, and the episode was a massive hit. Since that time, she and I have become c...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to slow more. My guest today is my wonderful friend Elizabeth's day one more time on Slowmo to talk about her new book
0:41.0	Magpie.
0:42.0	Elizabeth is the author of four novels and Sunday
0:47.3	time best-selling memoir How to Fail and recently Philosophy which we spoke about here on Slomo.
0:54.0	Her first book, Scissors Paper Stone, won a Betty Trask Award.
0:59.3	Home Fires was an observer Book of the Year.
1:02.4	Paradise City was named one of the was an
1:05.0	observer book of the year. Paradise City was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the evening standard.
1:08.0	The party was an Amazon bestseller.
1:11.0	Richard and Jude book club picked it as one of their picks.
1:15.0	She is also of course an award winning journalist,
1:17.0	has written extensively for the Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, the Observer,
1:22.0	An L, she is of course currently a columnist.
1:27.0	She is of course the host of How to Fail, which is one of the top podcasts in Britain and perhaps one of the first reasons I was introduced to the United Kingdom
1:38.8	when we had a couple of episodes together that were highly appreciated by listeners.
1:44.0	Since then, Elizabeth, because she's one of the most wonderful humans on the planet and
1:50.0	her wonderful husband Justin became very dear friends. We spoke a couple of weeks ago or a week ago and
1:57.9	she was a little uncertain about Will Magpie, her next book hit hit the charts or not? I'm here to bet that it will
2:06.4	be on the charts in the UK in the first week of its release and perhaps I thought I would
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