Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day is an award-winning author and journalist - and host of the brilliantly successful and totally riveting podcast How To Fail with Elizabeth Day, in which she interviews the likes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alastair Campbell and Lily Allen about the things that haven’t gone right in life. Having published four novels, including the 2017 smash-hit The Party, she has just released her fifth book, also called How To Fail. Part memoir, part mediation on the power of failure, it takes in career highs and lows, her struggle with infertility, the breakdown of her first marriage and more. Like everything Elizabeth produces, it’s beautifully written and sharply observed but also so honest and true. We talk about that - as well as her childhood in Northern Ireland, feeling like an outsider, being a closet introvert, therapy and more. She’s incredible.

Buy How to Fail: Everything I'Ve Ever Learned from Things Going Wrong at
https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-fail/elizabeth-day/9780008327323

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Edited by Chelsey Moore

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