Elizabeth Day

English novelist, journalist and broadcaster; feature writer for The Observer from 2007 to 2016; host of the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, elected 2024.

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The UK government’s new leave for pregnancy loss is not perfect but marks a meaningful direction of travel.

Not because it was perfect. But because it marked a meaningful direction of travel.

theelizabethday.substack.comSaid 23 Oct 2026This on korrents
Purpose is not an achievement or end goal but what a person brings to whatever they do.

Purpose is not necessarily what you do. It’s what you bring to what you do.

theelizabethday.substack.comSaid 16 Oct 2026This on korrents

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23 October

Elizabeth DayKorrents 23 Oct

From one piece Maybe Our Pain Was Not Without Purpose 2 beliefs · theelizabethday.substack.com

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Infertility traps people in endless uncertainty and a sense of failure over every choice they made.

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The world of infertility is steeped in the tyranny of maybe. First, you feel like a failure for not carrying a baby to term. Then you feel like a failure for not having chosen the right option.

Maybe Our Pain Was Not Without Purposetheelizabethday.substack.com
korrents.com
The UK government’s new leave for pregnancy loss is not perfect but marks a meaningful direction of travel.

government

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Not because it was perfect. But because it marked a meaningful direction of travel.

Maybe Our Pain Was Not Without Purposetheelizabethday.substack.com

16 October

Elizabeth DayKorrents 16 Oct

From one piece On Finding Your Purpose 2 beliefs · theelizabethday.substack.com

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Finding one’s purpose is less a discovery of something new than an uncovering of something already there.

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In my experience, locating one’s purpose is less an act of discovery (going in search of new lands) and much more an act of uncovering (revealing a truth that is already there) or recovering (reclaiming a quality that might have been lost or obscured during life’s many transitions).

On Finding Your Purposetheelizabethday.substack.com
korrents.com
Purpose is not an achievement or end goal but what a person brings to whatever they do.

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Purpose is not necessarily what you do. It’s what you bring to what you do.

On Finding Your Purposetheelizabethday.substack.com

18 September

Elizabeth DayKorrents 18 Sept

korrents.com
Podcasting lost a confessional intimacy when it stopped being an audio-only medium.

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I miss the days when podcasting was an audio-only medium. There was a confessional intimacy to those recordings where neither the interviewer or the guest had to think about what they were wearing

theelizabethday.substack.com

25 July

Elizabeth DayKorrents 25 Jul

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Reason is a valuable tool, but knowing is not only a matter of logic.

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But you cannot build an orchestra from a single instrument and expect it to play a human concerto. Because knowing is not just a matter of logic.

On C. J. Jung and The Limits of Reasontheelizabethday.substack.com

10 July

Elizabeth DayKorrents 10 Jul

korrents.com
Red carpets were cooler in the 1990s, when stars did not have to try so hard.

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There was a coolness to the insouciance. Actors just didn’t care as much or have to try so hard.

I miss the 90s red carpetstheelizabethday.substack.com

5 April 2019

Elizabeth DayRecommends 5 Apr 2019

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Heartburn

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Yet there is something very heart-warming about something that calls itself Heartburn.

fivebooks.com
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The Weather in the Streets

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The Weather in the Streets deals not only with the ethics of being ‘the other woman,’ which is what Olivia is—she’s having an affair with a married man, so she’s partly responsible for the failure of a marriage, which you only see off-screen—but also deals with getting pregnant and having an abortion.

fivebooks.com
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Slipstream

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Slipstream is her memoir.

fivebooks.com

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Korrents What they believe 7 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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- The UK government’s new leave for pregnancy loss is not perfect but marks a meaningful direction of travel.
  
  Not because it was perfect. But because it marked a meaningful direction of travel.
  
  Maybe Our Pain Was Not Without Purpose Said 23 Oct 2026
  
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- Infertility traps people in endless uncertainty and a sense of failure over every choice they made.
  
  The world of infertility is steeped in the tyranny of maybe. First, you feel like a failure for not carrying a baby to term. Then you feel like a failure for not having chosen the right option.
  
  Maybe Our Pain Was Not Without Purpose Said 23 Oct 2026
  
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- Purpose is not an achievement or end goal but what a person brings to whatever they do.
  
  Purpose is not necessarily what you do. It’s what you bring to what you do.
  
  On Finding Your Purpose Said 16 Oct 2026
  
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Finding one’s purpose is less a discovery of something new than an uncovering of something already there.

In my experience, locating one’s purpose is less an act of discovery (going in search of new lands) and much more an act of uncovering (revealing a truth that is already there) or recovering (reclaiming a quality that might have been lost or obscured during life’s many transitions).

On Finding Your Purpose Said 16 Oct 2026

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Podcasting lost a confessional intimacy when it stopped being an audio-only medium.

I miss the days when podcasting was an audio-only medium. There was a confessional intimacy to those recordings where neither the interviewer or the guest had to think about what they were wearing

The Hidden Tax on Women in Podcasting: Why ‘Just Turn the Camera On’ Costs Us More Said 18 Sept 2026

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Reason is a valuable tool, but knowing is not only a matter of logic.

But you cannot build an orchestra from a single instrument and expect it to play a human concerto. Because knowing is not just a matter of logic.

On C. J. Jung and The Limits of Reason Said 25 Jul 2026

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Red carpets were cooler in the 1990s, when stars did not have to try so hard.

There was a coolness to the insouciance. Actors just didn’t care as much or have to try so hard.

I miss the 90s red carpets Said 10 Jul 2026

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- Recommends Slipstream 5 Apr 2019
  
  Slipstream is her memoir.
  
  fivebooks.com 5 Apr 2019
  
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- Recommends The Weather in the Streets 5 Apr 2019
  
  The Weather in the Streets deals not only with the ethics of being ‘the other woman,’ which is what Olivia is—she’s having an affair with a married man, so she’s partly responsible for the failure of a marriage, which you only see off-screen—but also deals with getting pregnant and having an abortion.
  
  fivebooks.com 5 Apr 2019
  
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- Recommends Heartburn 5 Apr 2019
  
  Yet there is something very heart-warming about something that calls itself Heartburn.
  
  fivebooks.com 5 Apr 2019
  
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Newsletter DAYLIGHT by Elizabeth Day Essays on life, failure and writing

Open theelizabethday.substack.com

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