S8 Ep 5: Sophie White on the pill that changed her life, creativity & maintaining a fringe

This episode was first released in 2017 and re-edited in 2026. It was around this time eight years ago when I first met Sophie White. We’d only just become Instagram friends then but I wasted no time sliding into her DMs asking if she’d come on the pod. And because it was the very beginning of my podcasting journey , I was still learning how to use the equipment hence the crackly audio during our conversation. If you're not familiar with Sophie and her incredible work, she is a novelist, essayist and podcaster from Dublin. She has written several best-selling popular fiction books and in 2022 won the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel for sixth book, Where I End (Tramp Press, 2022). Sophie is currently writing the screenplay for an adaption of one her first book Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown which will start filming in summer 2026. In this conversation Sophie and I talked about everything from the pill at a festival that changed her life, Rice Krispie penis cakes and the mind-bending headf*ck that is motherhood. Follow Sophie here and listen to her podcast here . . My Instagram page is here and my newsletter In Bits, is here . I hope you love it. Peace and love, Esther Support this show . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S8 Ep 5: Sophie White on the pill that changed her life, creativity & maintaining a fringe is an episode from The 80% with Esther O'Moore Donohoe by The 80% with Esther O'Moore Donohoe.

This episode is 30:24 long.

This episode was published on Mar 5, 2026.

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