Tracey Emin

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534 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 10 Jan

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The History Hour · The House of the Spirits and Tracey Emin's unmade bed · 10 Jan 2026 podcast

I sent it to Carmen Balcils in Spain.

And in a month, she called me back and she said, I'm going to have this book published.

And that was the beginning of the miracle.

And then I started receiving, by the end of the year, the first few cheques.

And I was amazed that someone was going to pay me to write?

Oh my Lord, I thought I had to pay.

Although no one is mentioned by their names, some members of my family recognised themselves and they didn't like the depiction of the family.

I tried to explain that it was fiction, but that didn't fly.

Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Vanessa Redgrave, you name them.

They were all there.

Yeah.

Now it's the official story of the family.

And Meryl Streep is my grandmother.

It gave my life an expansion, a breath of air at a time when I was trapped.

I felt that my life was going nowhere.

My marriage was collapsing.

My children were leaving for university.

I was nobody.

And then suddenly this thing happened.

All that has happened in these last 40 years has been, wow, a gift from heaven.

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