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Episode Synopsis
This week Anna and Sam chat to Rebecca Ley and she reads from her new novel The Trip, which is out now as an Ebook.
Rebecca has been a journalist for twenty years after starting her career at The Times Magazine and then moving to staff roles at other newspapers. Since going freelance in 2009 she’s written for a wide variety of outlets, including a column in The Guardian’s now-defunct Family section about her father’s vascular dementia, obituaries for The Times and regular scripts for the animation company Scriberia. She also recently ghosted Hope Not Fear, a memoir by the Syrian activist and filmmaker Hassan Akkad which was just published by Pan Macmillan. Her first novel For When I’m Gone was published by Orion in September 2020. She’s got three kids and lives in Hackney, east London with them and her partner, also a journalist.
Rebecca has been a journalist for twenty years after starting her career at The Times Magazine and then moving to staff roles at other newspapers. Since going freelance in 2009 she’s written for a wide variety of outlets, including a column in The Guardian’s now-defunct Family section about her father’s vascular dementia, obituaries for The Times and regular scripts for the animation company Scriberia. She also recently ghosted Hope Not Fear, a memoir by the Syrian activist and filmmaker Hassan Akkad which was just published by Pan Macmillan. Her first novel For When I’m Gone was published by Orion in September 2020. She’s got three kids and lives in Hackney, east London with them and her partner, also a journalist.
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