Repatriation is a lonely and largely unsympathetic business, as is the menopause, and I didn’t know what to do with myself a lot of the time. I realised I could either feel miserable about this state of affairs or embrace it. I parked it in the proverbial drawer to gather dust and wondered what to do next.Īround the same time, I was diagnosed with premature menopause. But soon after I finished it, I returned to the UK and it didn’t feel like the right thing to pursue. The result was a slightly indulgent but very necessary piece of work for all sorts of reasons, not least of which was it taught me what writing 90,000 words felt like. When I mentioned I might like to give writing a novel a whirl instead, she advised me to stick to non-fiction if I wanted to be published as the odds were stacked against traditional publication for any debut writer.Īnd I did want to be published. I was studying for an MA while living in Dubai, and my tutor recommended I pen a narrative nonfiction about life as an expat – more specifically, an expat wife (or ‘trailing spouse’ as it was known back then!). When I first began writing, it was a terribly serious endeavour. Thoughts on writing comedy by Faye Brann, author of Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy and winner of the unpublished Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020
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