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

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Thank you for joining us. Today's guest wrote this heart-wrenching story.

It's just it it's it's I don't know what to tell you two children

Kept in an attic with a hundred years between them based on a true story.

Oh my God, and a bit of imagination when I spoke to the author, but what a story.

You know, I avoid to hurt my heart normally. I don't want to spend my life in things.

I believe life has enough drama on its own so why add more synthetic drama but this

will teach you so much it's called the Attic Child and the author is an author a psychotherapist a speaker

Lola Jaye who is an incredible British black author, we're going to talk about that.

And seven novels already, with a few other writings like me that she writes but doesn't publish yet so I'm going to try and

convince her to publish them and it is again part of our mini series associated with the publication of my book that

little voice in your head we published almost the same time so it's an honor and a

privilege to welcome Lola. Lola, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you for hurting my heart.

This story, you say it's a true story. I mean it's a child in 1907. Yes. That's kept in an attic and then another child a hundred years later that's that is kept in the same I think.

Yeah, well the true story part ends with just a child who basically was brought over here from Africa in the

Edwardian era by an explorer and I saw his photograph in the National Portrait

Gallery and I knew I had to write his story so he actually died at 12 so there wasn't

much to write about.

So I went about rewriting his story,

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