Isolationcast #24: Rebecca Ley on writing about death, recovering from anorexia and finding her voice

So - it's the final episode of season two, my 76th episode - and my 24th lockdown isolationcast! Thank you so much for bearing with me as I've done the podcast remotely in this way. My guest today is Rebcca Ley, whose debut novel For When I'm Gone is a hugely moving and yet also uplifting look at family, motherhood, grief and love. Rebecca was such a fascinating guest - as well as being a novelist, she is a journalist for the likes of The Times and the Guardian, for whom she wrote a popular column, Doing it for Dad, about her father's dementia. We discussed all of this, as well as her childhood growing up in Cornwall (as well as her time being homeschooled while her parents travelled in India), her teenage struggle with anorexia, her abandoned first novel, her writing process and so much more. I loved it - and I hope you do too Twitter: @aliceazania / @rebeccahelenley Instagram: @aliceazania / @rebeccaley Buy the book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/for-when-im-gone/rebecca-ley/9781409195375 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.