Journalist Molly Flatt sits down with host Miriam Robinson to discuss her tangled love affair with London, the limits of rational thought, how to combat perfectionism and the unexpected upside of a Hackney bar fight. Together, they explore what Molly’s life would have been like if, in 2014, the sale on the house she intended to buy in the countryside hadn’t fallen through and she’d left London for the countryside of her youth.Molly Flatt is a journalist who specialises in the impact of technology on publishing, culture and identity, and is Comment Editor at The Bookseller. Her novel is The Charmed Life Of Alex Moore (Pan Macmillan). She is also co-founder Big Book Weekend, a free virtual book festival accessible to all, supported by BBC Arts and Arts Council England.Make sure to subscribe to hear the rest of Season 1 – in each episode, Miriam Robinson interviews a guest about a path their life might have taken and together, step by step, they write the stories of their unlived lives.Produced by Tess Davidson#MyUnlivedLife Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.