“My son’s death will never make sense to me. But it has taught me that it’s possible to find meaning, collectively and individually, in the loss of what we love.” Liz Jensen
On 3 September, Lucinda Hawksley will be joined by Liz Jensen, the best-selling author of eight novels including The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, which was adapted by Hollywood into a box-office feature film starring Jamie Dornan. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Liz Jensen was a print and radio journalist in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She then spent four years as a freelance writer, translator and sculptor in France, and ten years as a BBC producer.
Liz, who lives in Copenhagen, has been short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award, nominated three times for the Women’s Fiction prize, and has had her work adapted for theatre and radio, and translated into twenty languages. Much of her work revolves around the environment and impact of climate change. She is a founder member of Extinction Rebellion’s Writers Rebel, a literary movement which includes writers such as Margaret Drabble, Ben Okri, Amitav Ghosh and Zadie Smith.
Four years ago, Liz’s life changed in an instant, with the devastating loss of her son, Raph. Known to many by the name of Iggy Fox, Raph was a leading figure of Extinction Rebellion. Following his unexpected death while filming an environmental campaign in South Africa, Liz abandoned the novel she was working on and wrote a book about grief. She will be discussing Your Wild and Precious Life: on grief, hope and rebellion on Goldster.
Join Liz and Lucinda Hawksley to find out how, after Raph’s death, Liz rebuilt herself, reoriented her life and rediscovered the enchantment of the living world. Your Wild and Precious Life is set against the backdrop of climate and ecological catastrophe, it’s an argument for agency, legacy and the wild possibility of hope after devastation.
Find them and earlier shows on The Goldster Conversations Podcast
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