Sally Hayden
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649 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Jun
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What the book eventually is, is nine different chapters.
So nine different contexts, nine different stories of, I call them a kind of love story, because I guess it wouldn't be what everyone would think of as a stereotypical love story in every case.
But they cover, you know, different countries from across Africa, Middle East, but also Asia and Europe and Europe.
Yeah, they're all just different examples of places that I've seen love and just telling those stories.
So that was how it came about.
But I do think it's developed like originally, like I write in the prologue, you know, I actually wrote this.
I found it much later, a Facebook message to my friend where I was like, I'm going to write a happy book of love stories.
And I think that everything that's happened in the preceding period of time ended up influencing the book, you know, the book now.
opens in Lebanon in 2024 when the war escalated there.
And, you know, that isn't a conceit.
Like, I actually wrote the opening at that exact moment that I described.
And, you know, there is an Israeli drone above me and the war had just escalated.
And what I was seeing even in that moment was the good things that people were doing for each other, how they rallied to
kind of help each other and yeah I think those insights probably took longer to come to but they've also definitely informed the book as well as like you know my kind of growing towards around the dangers of dehumanization the need for connection but also like how connections are being eroded and and a lot more besides that you see
Yeah, I mean, definitely, like I said, I wrote the book originally, I would say, for myself.
Like, it was something that I had to do because I was feeling just profoundly sad.
Like, sometimes you need to remind yourself that there is goodness in human nature.
And at the same stage, I don't think that I'm the only one who feels like that.
So I also taught, yeah, it's helpful for other people, but also...
Like, I think a lot of times in crisis situations, people who are experiencing them, they don't actually feel like they're being fully seen.
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