Stacey Heale on writing about death and life
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Stacey Heale is a fashion academic and writer whose husband Greg was diagnosed with terminal cancer when their youngest daughter was just a baby. Greg died 5 years later. In her memoir Now Is Not The Time For Flowers, Stacey writes about the big conversations that arise from imminent death. In this epsiode Stacey and I talk about writing about the dead, abandoning the typical memoir structure and the very funny side of a very dark experience. Now Is Not The Time For Flowers is out March 28th Links Now Is Not The Time For Flowers - Stacey Heale Stacey Heale on Instagram @stacey_heale Not Too Busy To Write on Substack - pennywincer.substack.com
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