Writing Magazine

JENNIE GODFREY

If you had asked me when I was seven or eightyears-old what I wanted to be when I grew up I would have definitely said ‘an author.’

I was obsessed with reading and writing and eventually did go on to study English at university. But real life got in the way and I didn’t come back to my dream again until my late forties.

By that stage I had built a successful career in HR but was experiencing what I guess most people would call a midlife crisis. I

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