One of them, Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin?, made me realise the form lent itself to intimate, honest conversations. I started listening to a lot of podcasts during that time, because music seemed too resonant with my heartbreak.
My life looked very different from how I’d thought it would. It had been my first long-term relationship after my divorce and I felt like such a failure when it ended – staring down the barrel of my 40s, single, divorced and without the children I longed for. What was the initial inspiration for launching How to Fail ?Ī romantic break-up, three weeks before my 39th birthday. She’s the author of five novels, the latest of which is Magpie. She hosts Open Book on Radio 4, Sky Arts Book Club and is a judge for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction. In 2018 she launched the podcast How to Fail, which has topped the iTunes chart, spawning live events and two books.
A uthor and broadcaster Elizabeth Day, 42, was raised in Belfast and later became an award-winning journalist, including a nine-year stint at the Observer.
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