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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: S1, Ep2 How to Fail: Sebastian Faulks
Description: Sebastian Faulks, bestselling novelist and author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, joins How To Fail to talk about his failure to win the Booker Prize (âthe whole thing is absolutely ridiculousâ), his sense of social isolation at boarding school and a period of depression at university he feels he has never fully recovered from. Along the way, he talks about what it really means to be a âsuccessfulâ writer and whether it matters what other people think, as well as the time he failed his driving test and got bowled out having scored 98 at cricket (two separate occasions, thankfully). Then there was t...