Isolationcast #19: Emma Gannon on why she created a child-free by choice heroine

I am so excited about this week's episode - it's actually the second time that Emma has been on The Sunday Salon. Last time, we were discussing her hugely successful book The Multi-Hyphen Method, about combining different jobs into one career. Now she's back - with a novel: the smart, warm, refreshing Olive, about a woman whose friends who are settling down and having children but who is not sure she wants that. It's a great theme for a book and I loved hearing why Emma wanted to explore it. I'm so grateful that she was so open about that - as well as the disappointment of having your book out in a pandemic, writing anxiety and much, much more. Buy the book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/olive/emma-gannon/9780008382728 Twitter: @aliceazania / @emmagannon Instagram: @aliceazania / @emmagannonuk Edited by Chelsey Moore

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The Sunday Salon is a podcast celebrating brilliant books and the women who write them, hosted by journalist Alice-Azania Jarvis. Each week she chats to an inspiring female author about her work, her career, how she writes, what she reads and everything in between. This is not some academic textual analysis – it’s about finding the stories behind the stories. Tune in each Sunday to hear from guests including Isabel Allende, Jessie Burton, Holly Bourne, Diana Evans, Elizabeth Day, Nimco Ali and Sophie Kinsella. Edited by Chelsey Moore.