Caro Giles on memoir, nature and putting yourself in the foreground
Not Too Busy To Write
English - January 25, 2023 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Personal Journals Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Caro Giles is a writer based in the north east of England, whose first book Twelve Moons tells the story, across a year, of raising her 4 daughters alone in a wild and isolated part of the country. It's an incredible memoir about caring, isolation, and joy found in tiny pockets of time. We talk about how the pandemic totally changed how she the structure of the book, the challenges of writing and caring and this beautiful idea of writing as a way to put yourself in the foreground, when you have been in the background for so long.
Links
An Evening with Caro Giles - Waterstones Newcastle 26th January
Alnwick Story Festival 25th February
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub
Caro Giles on instagram @carogileswrites
Penny on instagram @pennywincer
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