Clare Balding was the member of Team GB who didn’t get to compete... and although she didn’t get a bronze, silver or gold, she sure did a sterling job presenting! (Do you see what we did there?)
In this month’s issue of Woman & Home, Clare talks about life after the Olympics, including her new memoir, My Animals and Other Family.
“Nothing has connected me to other people as much as writing my book,” she tells Woman & Home. “It's a memoir, rather than an autobiography, and I wanted to make people think about their own childhood; their relationship with animals and their brother or father, and the things they were insecure about at school.”
Like many, she admits that her school days weren’t the best years of her life. “I felt like a misfit at school and I think that's quite common,” she says. “But that feeling is an advantage when I interview people because when you're on the sidelines, you're a spectator. I can talk to different characters with different life experiences and I can listen very carefully. I'm much more interested in them than in me in that interview, just as I should be.”
Read the full interview in Woman & Home’s June issue!
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Posted by Amy Power.