In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Maxine Fawcett about her book Everything is Perfect, and how the character of Cassie Prince is all of us trying to keep our head above water whilst simultaneously looking insta-worthy and actually getting stuff done.

In this conversation, we discuss how Maxine's morning pages turned into a novel and how the stages of parenting change - particularly as you move into the stage that Maxine refers to as 'mum-oncholy' that sense of aching sadness that comes as you realise you don't remember the last time you read a bedtime story or picked up your child....

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Nadia Mahjouri is also the author of ⁠⁠Half Truth ⁠⁠- her debut novel that will be released in early Feb 2025. ⁠⁠Pre-orders available soon⁠⁠

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