4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. |
0:07.3 | This is your chance to hear some of the best bits from across the week from the program |
0:11.0 | that offers a female perspective on the world. |
0:14.3 | Coming up, we hear from Donna McLean, who discovered her ex-fiance was an undercover cop, |
0:20.3 | plus award-winning singer-songwriter Kate Nash on her transition from the stage to the |
0:24.9 | wrestling ring. |
0:25.9 | But first, a woman who writes funny, clever novels about the tough stuff in life that millions |
0:32.6 | want to read. |
0:34.0 | Addiction, breakups, baby loss and depression with women at the heart. |
0:38.6 | I am, of course, talking about Marion Keys. |
0:41.5 | Her new novel, again Rachel, revisits Rachel Walsh, whose story of recovery from addiction |
0:46.8 | was told in the 1997 novel Rachel's Holiday. |
0:50.8 | 25 years later, Rachel has come full circle and is now working at the rehab facility where |
0:57.0 | she got into recovery all those years ago. |
0:59.9 | Emma spoke to Marion and asked her whether she'd always planned to write this long-awaited |
1:05.0 | sequel. |
1:06.0 | No, I mean, I've always stood on a platform of no sequels, because I just think, when |
1:10.5 | I'm finished a book, I've put my characters through and off. |
1:14.7 | That's just for me. |
1:15.7 | I mean, other writers are entirely different. |
1:17.8 | But there are five sisters in the Walsh family. |
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