Taylor Jenkins Reid

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

For author Taylor Jenkins Reid, fame is a brilliant lens through which to examine societal expectations of women. The female celebrities in her glamourous novels all navigate the restrictions put on their behaviour in very different ways, in turn mirroring how all women – famous or not – might feel compelled to act.

In this chat, Fearne and Taylor share how much of their own self-worth is wrapped up in their perception of what they’ve achieved, across both a day and an entire lifetime. Plus, Taylor explains why we don’t necessarily know who we are until we give a lot of activities and jobs a try, and why pure, unadulterated joy is just as good a reason as any to do something.

Daisy Jones and The Six is available to stream on Amazon Prime from 3rd March.

Carrie Soto is Back is out now in hardback:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/441945/carrie-soto-is-back-by-reid-taylor-jenkins/9781529152128

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that digs beneath the glossy surface
0:07.6	in search of the real story.
0:10.2	Today I'm chatting to Taylor Jenkins' read.
0:13.1	Nobody makes sense.
0:15.0	Everyone's really complicated.
0:17.2	People aren't the same person every single day.
0:20.4	Sometimes you're really nice to the cashier and sometimes you're kind of brusqued with
0:25.6	the cashier.
0:26.6	Sometimes you're really kind to the person you meet on the street and another time you're
0:31.2	not your best self.
0:32.6	There's no consistency in who a person is.
0:36.2	That freedom to be inconsistent and to not be defined by the worst thing you said today
0:42.8	or the worst thing you did today.
0:45.0	That's something that incredibly famous people give up.
0:48.2	Oh, okay, here we go.
0:50.4	Taylor is one of my favorite authors ever.
0:53.6	I've read all of her books and she's a particularly phenomenal author because across all her novels
0:59.1	she really cleverly uses fame as a lens through which to examine society as a whole and
1:05.6	how that society treats women in particular while also giving us a bloody good time allowing
1:11.8	us to escape into her gorgeous, glamorous, incredible, clever worlds.
1:17.8	If you haven't read her novels, well, first of all I'm jealous because you can now
1:22.7	go and read them.
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