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Louise Candlish
Website: http://www.louisecandlish.com
Interviewed 14 March 2020
Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...
Shop-girl
Coach
Waitress
Ride-operator
Assistant
Editor
Copywriter
Novelist
Optimist
Catastrophist
Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...
Fox-red Labrador puppy (Bertie)
Coffee machine
Overflowing bin I forgot to take out last night
Print of The Escalator by Cyril Power
Photo of my daughter in infant school
Photo of our black Lab Maggie on the beach before she died
Savaged sock
Wrapper of a Reese’s Nut Bar
Roll of Scotch tape
Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?
I could probably just about do my prawn taco lettuce wraps in that time.
Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...
Debbie Harry
Jane Birkin
William Langewiesche (journalist)
Margaret Atwood
John McEnroe
Roger Federer
Lana del Rey
(Do you think they’ll all get on?)
Six things you can't live without ...
Bed
Bathtub
Coffee machine
Books
Phone (for music)
My big Aigle down-filled coat
Five favourite words ...
Bizarre
Monstrous
Ludicrous
Squeamish
Oboe
Four places you'd run away to ...
Ile de Ré
Sicily
New York
Kyoto
Three books you've bought recently ...
Stone Mothers by Erin Kelly
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn
Two things that make you rant ...
Politics
People who talk only about themselves and their children
One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...
Persevere and you will conquer.