From bedsit to best-seller: novelist Jane Fallon on her second-act success
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Book club special: Trish and Lorraine meet ‘Queen of the Revenge Comedy’ Jane Fallon who reveals how she ditched a 20-year career in TV to pursue a childhood ambition to write novels in her 40s (and why it’s all thanks to menopause). She also explains the reason she’s never felt overwhelmed by partner Ricky Gervais’s fame, and why she prefers hanging out with her cat Pickle to treading the red carpet.
Plus: The best midlife reading list - discover your hosts' new book tips for spring; who would be Lulu in Starstruck & dialling back to the 80s for a Nostalgia Noodle.
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| 0:29.3 | Now, young Trish, when I'm feeling a little down, |
| 0:32.3 | I like to watch on YouTube a little clip of Star Struck, |
| 0:37.8 | which is the telly thing on Saturday night |
| 0:40.8 | where three people pretend to be |
| 0:43.8 | light stars in your eyes. |
| 0:44.9 | Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be three of them come out |
| 0:47.3 | at the same time and they pretend to be someone else now. |
| 0:50.3 | Meatloaf, three pretending to be meatloaf |
| 0:52.9 | in three really bad weeks, is my favourite. |
| 0:55.6 | And it's guaranteed to make me laugh. |
| 0:58.3 | And then I was thinking about your little tendency |
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