Tanya Shadrick
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Tanya Shadrick

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What happens after you get your wake-up call? When – after years of hiding in routine, shrinking from opportunity, and sleepwalking through your days – you know you want more. How do you remake your life without breaking it? Tanya Shadrick's The Cure for Sleep is the stunning true story of a small-town wife and mother who returns from sudden near-death determined to live her second life on a larger, braver scale – whatever it takes, or costs. A Waterstones and Evening Standard non-fiction book of 2022. “Shadrick wrote The Cure for Sleep to chart her reinvention from shy, small-town outsider to someone stamping their presence on artistic and literary life…and she wants to help others follow in her footsteps.” The IPaper “A sublimely written account of refusing to be defined by social constructs and embracing life-enhancing change, The Cure for Sleep is a poignant and inspiring slice of literary memoir.” Waterstones ABOUT TANYA “Apprenticeships were always seven years: why not place yourself in service to your dream or ambition for that long, using every spare minute on it. Ask yourself: What you begin now and persist with if you were guaranteed 10 or 20 years to master it?” Tanya Shadrick for BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Tanya is a former hospice scribe and writer who works in public spaces to encourage others to share stories and take creative risks - a practice which has earned her Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts. She has been a visiting writer in many extraordinary places, including England’s oldest outdoor pool, Virginia Woolf’s garden at Monk’s House and the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature in Switzerland.
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