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Podcast: The Shift with Sam Baker
Episode: Lisa Jewell on hitting a golden seam of success in her 50s - FROM THE ARCHIVES
Description: (This episode first aired in September 2022.)
Today’s guest is one of Britain’s best loved novelists, Lisa Jewell. Her career started with a smash hit debut novel Ralph’s Party - which she started writing as a bet at the age of 27 while she was unemployed, and, according to her, “totally lacking in direction and ambition”. It was the book of the moment and for 14 novels it looked like her career - although ticking along nicely - would never hit those heights again.
Then her writing took a turn for the dark and her career took...