Elizabeth Day
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first heard Jun 2025
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You can't rationalize it.
You can't figure it out.
Hannah Murray worked as an actor for over a decade and developed a reputation for tackling emotionally complex characters with great sensitivity from a young age.
At 17, Murray starred as the self-destructive Cassie in E4's Skins.
Later, she juggled an English degree at Cambridge University alongside playing Gilly, an abused wilding who births her father's child in HBO's Game of Thrones.
Her film roles include Detroit, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, in which she played a survivor of police abuse, and Charlie Says, where she portrayed a real-life Manson family member.
When the physical and mental stress required from these roles began to take its toll, Murray sought treatment from a Reiki healer.
From there, her life began to spiral as she became heavily involved with a healing organization whose promises of real life magic and enlightenment were increasingly seductive to a highly vulnerable Murray.
She ended up being sectioned after a psychotic break and diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Now, she has written her first book, The Make Believe, a memoir of magic and madness, is a deeply personal account of these events, written with compulsive lyricism.
It takes readers on a journey to the edges of reality, where magic seems possible, and where the liminal space between what is real and what is imagined becomes ever more porous.
It has already rightly been heaped with praise from, among others, Dolly Alderton and Sophie McIntosh.
The events the book details, says Murray, were intensely challenging to live through.
But, she adds, the process of writing them down was powerfully rewarding.
Hannah Murray, welcome to How to Fail.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
It's my honour, having been lucky enough to read a proof copy of The Make-Believe, I concur with all of the praise that you have had.
It is an astonishing book and one of the best memoirs I've ever read.
I couldn't put it down.
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