Alex Clark discusses the challenges of writing your own life legend with the authors of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and H Is for HawkThis week we listen in to a conversation between Helen Macdonald and Jeanette Winterson that took place as section of the Guardian Live programme of events.Macdonald is the author of this year's surprise bestseller,H Is for Hawk – a bewitching combination of grief memoir and falconry. Winterson recently followed up her name-making fictionalised memoir Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit with an unfictionalised one, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? They discuss the challenges and pleasures of memoir-writing with critic Alex Clark.Continue reading..., and
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