Lucy Loves What Sarah Read Next

This week’s guest is the brilliant Sarah Gwonyoma. Sarah is the founder of the Instagram account ‘What Sarah Read Next’ a place where she shares her reviews and recommendations of books she loves. I love it when people can turn their passion into something wonderful, not only for themselves but for so many others. We discuss why she started blogging and reviewing books, how reading helped her through grief, being a guest speaker at the upcoming Happy Place Festival and so much more.   Here are the highlights: (02:22) Relocating back to the UK (09:49) Why Sarah started blogging (16:05) Don’t put pressure on yourself to read (20:05) Writing her own memoir (21:32) Sarah’s proudest moment (27:28) Having to homeschool during lockdown (30:42) On enjoying cooking (36:21) On guest speaking at the Happy Place Festival (39:03) Sarah’s book recommendation     Contact Sarah: Instagram: @whatsarahreadnext   Happy Place Festival: https://www.happyplaceofficial.co.uk   Sarah’s book recommendation: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki This is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan Beyond Grief by Pippa Vosper   Find out more about Lucy and listen to more episodes at http://lucygourlay.com  

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Lucy Loves is a podcast bringing a bit of light-hearted fun and humour, inspired by you for you. It is borne from Lucy’s love of listening and love of laughter. Each week our aim is to bring you a few laughs and some inspiring momentum to lift the spirits - and to find out what makes your heart smile. Lucy Gourlay is a happy, hard-working, busy single mum to two fabulous children. Lucy lives in rural Northumberland and loves baking. She also loves the idea of running! Lucy is a Time to Think coach giving unconditional space to people who don’t feel listened to. Each week Lucy chats to a different guest so they can bring their laughter and humour and we can learn about what or who inspires them to keep the feel-good moments alive. Life has its fair share of challenges and we can be affected in so many ways. But it is remembering to find or look for the humour, the heartwarming, or even the laugh out loud moments - and that’s what we aim to do each week, is to find the laughter in amongst the challenges. We really hope you enjoy this podcast and would love you to subscribe so you can keep updated with new episodes. And if you really enjoy it, it would mean a great deal if you can leave a review.