Isabel Waidner

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457 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Isabel Waidner & Sarah Wood: As If · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, they're all my books, I mean, obviously.

But you're right, this is a sort of a new project.

This is slightly apart from what I did before.

And it is true that it is kind of about aging as well, isn't it?

Like they're falling apart and they're not aging gracefully.

either so it's um it's about being about aging but also in a really juvenile way to some extent because what you say is also true that there is a lot of dissociation and deflection going on and disorientation which we touched on before they this and character like which are the older i get the more i realize that half the time we're just doing stuff that is completely beside the point yeah

Yeah, exactly.

So it's really important to get your focus on, but we're so... Which is harder and harder.

I mean, I'm actually quite good at the focusing, strangely enough.

But the focus might be a distraction.

That's the big mess.

You know, if I'm focusing on the writing all the time, what am I not looking at?

You know, you can sort of trip yourself up.

This can go on forever.

But you're really right.

This is... What's the thing about the quote you said about you notice more as you get older?

Yes, 100%.

This is the starting point.

This is a person whose older, younger self is no longer fit for purpose.

That is the main premise, if not the main premise of the Pope, exactly.

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