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0:20 – Welcome to the show!
0:40 – Welcome Dr Sian Prior.
2:16 – Sian: I have brief moments of panic about over-sharing in my books. I just have to talk myself down from those fears.
3:53 – Sian: When I write, I have to focus, and I give to ask myself to hard questions and see things in a fresh light
4:27 – Jo: it’s a topic that is personal and painful, and also weirdly political where everything thinks they should have an opinion.
10:18 – Sian: “Because I’m childless, people assume I’m selfish. It adds insult to injury.”
12:30 – Sian: “I was so busy looking ahead, I didn’t allow myself to sit in the space I was in.”
25:27 – Thanks for joining us!
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