Milkshakes And Morphine by Genevieve Fox

In this month’s episode we hear from creative writer Genevieve Fox, who looks at the relationship between her new book, her memoir, and her current research on memory for her forthcoming novel. As a second-year PGR, Genevieve is doing a practice-based interdisciplinary Creative Writing PhD which engages with writers such as Virginia Woolf and their relationship with selfhood and memory. Genevieve’s memoir, 'Milkshakes and Morphine: A Memoir of Love and Life', is about a collision between past and present, between a childhood she tried her best not to remember and an adult experience of cancer that forced her to look back on the love, loss and misadventures of her early life.Her reflections on the capricious nature of mutable memory during the process of writing the memoir inspired her current research and creative practice.Milkshakes and Morphine, published by Vintage press in paperback, was released on Jan 24, 2019.