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🗓️ 23 July 2020
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Hello and welcome to this special OLIVE mini series — all around the topic of my debut novel OLIVE which is out TODAY! In lieu of a launch party, I’ve decided to release this 4-part series on 4 different women’s varying experiences and attitudes towards motherhood, based on the topics within the book.
The novel centres around Olive and her three best friends, Bea, Cecily and Isla. Bea is a mum of 3 who loves her busy chaotic home, Cecily is newly pregnant feeling apprehensive and excited, Isla is struggling with her fertility and undergoing IVF treatment. Olive knows that having children is not for her and recently broke up with her longterm boyfriend because he wanted to try for a baby and she didn’t — and this book explores the obstacle course of adulthood, navigating key life milestones, and how their friendships grow and change as they each figure out their own paths.
Natalie Lee is a fashion blogger, former midwife and body positivity advocate. In this episode we talk about getting creative during maternity leave, how friendships can change & grow, how to set boundaries and having time for yourself.
Follow Natalie on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/stylemesunday/?hl=en
Thanks for listening and you can now buy OLIVE from your favourite retailer.
Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/olive/emma-gannon/9780008382728
Hive: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Emma-Gannon/Olive/24224499
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1:06.0 | Hello and welcome back to my Olive mini series this is episode 4 very excited to bring this to you today because my debut novel |
1:10.0 | Olive is out today online in stores you can get it from your favorite retailer and of |
1:16.6 | course I was going to have a book launch but that is no longer happening |
1:19.7 | but I've decided to release this four-part series, four different podcast episodes, |
1:25.4 | interviewing four different women about their varying experiences and attitudes |
1:29.5 | towards motherhood based on the topics I cover in my book, Olive. So the novel |
1:34.8 | centers around the main character, Olive who is child free by choice and she's |
1:38.6 | figuring out her own path in life and her three best friends are called B, Cessily and Eilah and |
1:45.0 | and they're all going through their own struggles in their own ways and they are |
1:49.0 | grappling with their own definition of motherhood and what that is looking like for them. So it is a story of |
1:55.0 | friendship, it's a story of the obstacle course of adulthood, what happens when all |
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