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Elizabeth Day

English novelist, journalist and broadcaster; feature writer for The Observer from 2007 to 2016; host of the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, elected 2024.

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HeartburnBook Nora Ephron

recommended

Yet there is something very heart-warming about something that calls itself Heartburn.

Five Books interview: the best books on Coping With Failure

2019-04-05·fivebooks.com ↗

The Weather in the StreetsBook Rosamond Lehmann

recommended

The Weather in the Streets deals not only with the ethics of being ‘the other woman,’ which is what Olivia is—she’s having an affair with a married man, so she’s partly responsible for the failure of a marriage, which you only see off-screen—but also deals with getting pregnant and having an abortion.

Five Books interview: the best books on Coping With Failure

2019-04-05·fivebooks.com ↗

SlipstreamBook Elizabeth Jane Howard

recommended

Slipstream is her memoir.

Five Books interview: the best books on Coping With Failure

2019-04-05·fivebooks.com ↗

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