On Monday I spoke to Clover about her latest memoir, The Giant on the Skyline - but we also discussed the power of writing to help us transform as people, and in turn to help our readers engage with parts of themselves that were perhaps unspoken… and we spoke about many many lovely things.
I had been meaning to speak with Clover for some time as research for my forthcoming book on the craft of memoir, INTO BEING: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform - which will be published by MUP in autumn next year. And I was particularly interested in hearing about the experience of being a serial memoirist, now writing her fifth memoir.
From her first, which was the Wild Other, with a traumatic event at its centre, through to those that followed which were more about following an emotion, motherhood, grief, and then home, in The Giant on the Skyline.
Watch the video, and welcome to our conversation…
Lily and Clover Talking Memoir and Self-Transformation