Jojo Moyes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I'd been so excited about this holiday.
I was so uncool on the plane.
I was pretty much bouncing.
And so I've never been very good at giving myself rest.
I like working and I'm really lucky to do the thing that I love.
So I find it really hard to step away from that.
And I think...
It's not unusual for freelancers and I think it's especially not unusual for women.
And so that was going on.
My mum got cancer.
They said she would last six months and she ended up lasting four and a half years.
And anyone who's been on that cancer journey knows that it is not a straight trajectory.
It is an absolute roller coaster of hope, despair, treatments, no treatments.
Is she going to make Christmas this year?
Is she not?
I was trying to manage my children's feelings about it.
I was trying to help her.
I was having my own feelings about it while dealing with work.
And I was touring a lot.
And the books were so successful at this point that every publisher wanted me at the same time.