Lindsey Kelk on grief, gynae hell and why she's had enough of ageism in romcoms

The Shift with Sam Baker

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Anyone else feel in serious need a romcom right now? I know I do. And my guest today has your back. Lindsey Kelk’s unashamedly feel good fiction has won her a legion of fans from the queen Marian Keyes and Jane Fallon to Emily Henry and Mhairi McFarlane. Born in Doncaster and now living in LA by way of New York, Lindsey has written 19 novels and sold 2.5million copies. The most recent of which are Love Me Do - a fun gender-flipped Cyrano de Bergerac meets The Holiday - and The Christmas Wish, which turns Christmas Day into Groundhog Day. Sounds more like a horror story than a romcom to me! Self-confessed oversharer and cat lover, Lindsey hung out in my kitchen with Sausage the cat (but of course) to tell me about losing both her mother and grandmother in the space of the year, how she learnt that often what looks like a wall is actually a door and how a Northern girl who grew up in a diet-y household, maintains a semblance of self-esteem in the city of beautiful people. We also discussed Lindsey’s gynaecological history FROM HELL (and as regular listeners will know, it takes one to know one), finally finding a partner who’s all about a green flag and how she’s fully sick of ageism in romcoms. If you loved this episode, you might also like my conversations with Jane Fallon and Marian Keyes. * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at The Shift bookshop on Bookshop.org, including Love Me Do by Lindsey Kelk and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me. * And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Juliette Nicholls @ Pineapple Audio Production. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.5	We're having a baby.
0:05.5	We're having a baby.
0:07.2	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.4	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.4	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.6	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.6	I think of it like a Tamagocchi.
0:17.8	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu
0:23.6	original series streaming exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:35.7	Hello and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds about truth about being a woman post-40.
0:42.7	Created and hosted by me, writer and broadcaster, Sam Baker.
0:47.6	Anyone else feeling neither of a rom-com right now?
0:50.8	I know I do.
0:52.4	And my guest today has got your back. Lindsay Kelk's unashamedly feel-good fiction
0:58.0	has won her a legion of fans from the Queen Marion Keys to Jane Fallon to Emily Henry and Mari McVarland.
1:07.0	Born in Doncaster and now living in L.A. by way of New York, Lindsay has written 19 novels and
1:13.7	sold two and a half million copies, the most recent of which I Love Me Do, a fun gender-flipped
1:20.3	Serrano de Bergerac meets the holiday, and the Christmas Wish, which turns Christmas Day
1:25.6	into Groundhog Day. It was made very clear for me for a very young age that that was wrong and that I should be
1:31.9	physically taking up that space. And I think when you're told that from being a very young
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