Freya North: midlife dating with the queen of romance
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Lorraine and Trish find out how best-selling novelist Freya North carved out a new life in the countryside as a single parent, survived the emotional turmoil that triggered a five-year period of writer's block, and finally mastered the art of online dating in midlife.
Plus: stressed out teens - understanding and supporting their anxieties; what we learned from 50 years of Cosmopolitan magazine & a misadventure in a swimsuit!
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| 0:00.0 | I've had a bit of a laundry incident that I feel I needed to share with you today, Lorraine. |
| 0:06.0 | Not if it's boring, Trish. Don't bore me. You know that was a crime. It was quite a surprise, shall we say. |
| 0:13.5 | It's going to start off quite boring, but I think it'll get better. It begins with a missing sock. |
| 0:17.8 | So one of my socks went missing when I was doing it, and I'm very careful about my socks, |
| 0:21.5 | because I can't bear all the lost socks. Oh my god, cool. It's just a nightmare, but I'm like, |
| 0:26.6 | they can all lose their socks, but I am not losing my very nice little one. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm losing by the way. Okay, so anyway, hanging at washing a sock has gone missing. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm like, I know that sock went into the washing machine. It's either been eaten by the washing machine. |
| 0:39.6 | Don't know. Anyway, about a month later, put my swimming costume on this morning. |
| 0:44.0 | It was in the gusset of my swimming costume. I was like, what is all that halging? |
| 0:51.9 | What is all that halging time? I had to have a rummage, and it was, it was the rummage in your |
| 0:57.7 | gusset. We're rummage in the gusset. That's the title of your biography, isn't it? |
| 1:03.6 | That's the book we want to read about. Trish Alpin, isn't it? |
| 1:06.4 | Oh, it's really clear. These things are sent to try us, aren't they? |
| 1:10.8 | Yes, but incredibly irritating. Anyway, I was able to reunite it with its comrade, |
| 1:16.6 | which is what my mum used to call the socks. Like, if there was a sock missing, |
| 1:20.1 | all that, where's the comrade of that sock? And it was the most unexpected thing, |
| 1:24.4 | because she wouldn't even properly know much about what the Communist Party was. |
| 1:29.8 | About comrade. And if there's a shoe unpack there, Trish Alpin has time. |
| 1:34.8 | Comrades all in one go. |
| 1:38.9 | Hello. Hello. Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. I'm Trish Alpin. |
| 1:44.0 | And I'm Nareen Candy, and we're on a mission to help you make the most of your magnificent |
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