Sophie Lambert: I love representing memoir. I am looking for that magic in a proposal – and it doesn’t matter who the person is, where they are from, what they do – it’s just that totally unique way of communicating a life or a time in one’s life.
This is Going to Hurt could likely have been written by many junior doctors who experienced the stresses and strains of life working for the NHS – and I see tens of submissions by fed-up medics every day – but what Adam Kay did was find a way to tell his personal story, the story of the decline of the NHS and the government AND educate us about medicine – AND make us laugh and cry all at the same time. But in all honesty, the majority of people shouldn’t, unless they are absolutely sure that their story has a USP – and that their way of telling it is surprising and exciting and interesting to more than a small group of people who can relate to their own experience. Everyone’s life has twists and turn, ups and downs.
Cathryn Summerhayes: Everyone has a story to tell.
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