In Episode 5 of Mostly Books Meets, we chat to journalist, author, and podcaster, Elizabeth Day.
An experienced journalist, who has written for publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday. Elizabeth’s first book was published in 2011 and she went on to publish a further three novels, including the Party which was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick.
In 2017, after a relationship breakup, Elizabeth came up with the idea of a new podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day. In the podcast, she speaks to successful people about three perceived failures and how they dealt with them. The podcast was an instant success and, after eight episodes, it had been downloaded more than 200,000 times and she had a book deal.
The resulting book, How to Fail, was a Sunday Times best seller and the follow up, Failosophy is published on the 1st October.
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In Failosophy Elizabeth Day brings together all the lessons she has learned, from conversations with the guests on her award-winning How to Fail podcast, from stories shared with her by readers and listeners, and from her own life, and distils them into seven principles of failure. Practical, reassuring and inspirational, these principles offer a guide through life's rough patches. From failed exams to romantic break-ups, from career setbacks to confidence crises, from navigating anxiety to surviving loss, Failosophy recognises, and celebrates, the fact that failure connects us all.
It is what makes us human. With insights from Malcolm Gladwell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Frankie Bridge, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sande, Alain de Botton, Mabel, Fearne Cotton, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes, Andrew Scott and many, many more, Failosophy is the essential handbook for turning failure into success.
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