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On writing a memoir

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Sep 25, 2023
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Clare Finney didn’t mean to write a memoir. She’s a food journalist and is used to interviewing other people about their lives rather than examining her own. But with Hungry Heart; A Story of Food and Love, it all went a bit pear-shaped.

She meant to explore the relationship between food and memory, the associations that people make about what they were …

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