Róisín Ingle

You broke me, Jack.

Bruce Springsteen could have done a lot of things in that moment.

He could have ignored me.

He could have politely excused himself to the bathroom.

He could have demanded to switch seats or had me thrown out or yelled, get your shit together, girl.

This is not the ladies' room.

Get a tampon and get a life.

Instead, he looked at me with the gentlest eyes, eyes that crinkled with all the charm that our nation's creative father should exude and said, well, Lena, this is the hard stuff.

These are the questions artists must ask ourselves.

And none of us had that answer about how best to express our hurt through art.

But when I was writing my memoir, I told myself this again and again.

First off, if it's boring, stop writing it.

he laughed self-effacingly and second you don't owe it to people to be honest about every little thing that doesn't mean you lie it just means you can have secrets you only owe it to them to show them how your mind works so I would just say that's just one little anecdote from it but it's a really great entertaining read it's something to take on your holidays that I think if you like a memoir you'll like that memoir

And that's the final book choice.

But we're lucky because Clare is going to read a little bit from her first choice, which is The Great Gatsby.

And I'm looking forward to this.

So what part is this part, Clare?

Welcome back to the Women's Podcast.

I'm Roisin Ingle.

Hope you're all doing well.