Eleanor Morgan

My guest this week is Eleanor Morgan, whose second book Hormonal: A Conversation About Women’s Bodies, Mental Health and Why We Need to Be Heard came out this year. It’s brilliant and beautifully written, combining Eleanor’s own experience with detailed research and interviews - a similar approach to the one taken in her first book, Anxiety for Beginners: A Personal Investigation. Eleanor is also a successful journalist, who has written for The Guardian, The Times, Vogue, GQ, The New York Times and more. I loved talking to her about the strange experience of putting personal stories into the public domain, why women’s health concerns have been historically neglected, the fight to get her second book published - and her decision to train as a psychologist.

ALSO: while I have your attention, might you consider donating to my charity Christmas appeal in aid of the Book Trust which provides books to vulnerable children? The link to do so is here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/sundaysalon

Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hormonal-Journey-Bodies-Affect-Difficult/dp/0349011397

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Edited by Chelsey Moore

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