What does it mean to pursue your purpose in life? How do you begin? How do you cope with failure – and with success? And is the joy in the journey rather than the destination?
In this enlivening chat with novelist Sarah Butler we explore all this and more, including why doing is the first step to being, how to approach your purpose as a landscape, why we all need to play, and why being willing to fail is key to success.
Sarah is a novelist whose work explores ideas of home, belonging, identity, family, and urban landscapes. Her first two novels, Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love (2013) and Before The Fire (2015) were published by Picador in the UK and with fourteen international publishers. In November 2018, she published a novella, Not Home, written in conversation with people living in unsupported temporary accommodation in Manchester. Her new novel, Jack and Bet, will be published by Picador in Spring 2020.
You can tweet Sarah @SarahButler100, and find out more about her writing here and work in literature and regeneration here.