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#292 Caitlin Moran: How To Be A Woman, 10 Years On

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today's guest is the brilliant Caitlin Moran! Award-winning columnist, author, scriptwriter. She is the eldest of eight children, grew up in Wolverhampton and she published her first novel at the age of 16. She then became a columnist at The Times aged 18 and has gone on to be named Columnist of the Year six times. Her popular novel How to Build a Girl is now a movie with Beanie Feldstein playing her. She is perhaps most known for her multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman which has now been published in 28 countries and won the British Book Awards’ Book of the Year 2011. I read How To Be a Woman when I was 21, and like most people it had a profound effect on me and was my first introduction to the world of feminism. Now she has released a follow up book, ten years later, called More Than A Woman, it was so great getting to talk to her about everything thats gone on since HTBAW came out. We talk about the book, why she wrote it, helping a loved one who is struggling and of course some writing tips. Really enjoyed this chat - and hope you do too! If you enjoyed please feel free to leave a review. :) Thank you! xo

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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. Today's guest is with the brilliant author,

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the best-selling and award-winning author, Katlam Moran. She is the eldest of eight

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children. She grew up in Wolverhampton. She published her first novel at 16 and she became a columnist at the Times at 18.

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She's had such an interesting varying and quite crazy career and she's gone on to be named columnist of the year six times in a row at the

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glamour awards and other awards in the industry. Her novel How to Build a

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Girl is now a movie with Beeney Feldstein playing her, which is the best casting ever.

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And she is probably most famously known for her multi award winning bestseller How to Be a Woman,

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which sold a squillion bazillion copies and has been published in 28 countries and counting.

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I think most millennial women will remember reading how to be a woman for the first time.

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I was 21 and on a holiday and I read it by the pool and I just felt like Catlin was explaining things about the patriarchy and feminism that you kind of can't unsee once you read all about it.

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Obviously a lot has changed since that book came out and the world seems very different 10 years on and

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