# Louise O' Neill - "I was standing in the ashes of my former life"

An episode of [Brendan O'Connor](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1495060929), 26 Sep 2026, 31 min.

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Author Louise O’Neill joins Brendan to discuss her first memoir ‘A Bigger Life’. It details a dramatic break-up, which led her to completely reconsider her life and priorities. From returning home, to travelling in Thailand, to dating her way across Europe, she outlines the huge mix of emotions she went through from joy to embarrassment to unexpected tears. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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