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On maternity leave and thinking I want to work but I don’t want to go back to the office? So did I.
It was great talking to Soozi Baggs from Maternity Leavers about how having time out of the office with LO changed what I wanted from my work life in this free podcast. Are you thinking of becoming a Mumpreneur? Are you on maternity leave? Or did you have a change of...
Do you want to be a perfect parent?
Listen now to Sarah and Amy Beeson's interview with Dr. Karen Osburn from Mom at 41 on working together, parenting and getting a book deal. Is there such a person as a perfect parent or do we need to let ourselves be vulnerable to really connect with our children?...
Top 20 Tunes of early 1970s as featured in ‘The New Arrival’ by Sarah Beeson MBE
Listening to the chart music of Britain certainly helped us find our 1970s groove. Here's the music that features in The New Arrival during moments of love, laughter and regret. There's also a bit of good old-fashioned East End Musical Hall but that's for a different...
London in the 70s – it was the time of my life Sarah talks to The Staffordshire Newsletter on her childhood, nursing, family life and all time favourites
Sarah talks to The Staffordshire Newsletter in their lifestyle interview AGE: I was 17 in 1969 at the beginning of my memoir The New Arrival so… HOME: The Haywoods FAMILY: My lovely daughter Amy, her husband Takbir and their daughter Ava. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? The...
Sarah on The Book Show
On tonight's Book Show from 7pm CET tune into www.talkradioeurope.com to hear Sarah Beeson MBE, her book 'The New Arrival' is a heartwarming true story of her time as a 1970's trainee Nurse at Hackney General Hospital. Sarah was really thrown in at the deep end,...
Sarah talks to BBC Radio Stoke about babies, nursing and becoming a writer
Sarah joined Perry Spiller on BBC Radio Stoke on the day of our book event in hometown of Stafford to talk about The New Arrival and her views on NHS, parenting and life in swinging London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01xffh4
Amy Beeson on life as a working mum in The Telegraph
Sarah's daughter Amy was interviewed by The Telegraph about the challenges and rewards of being a "Mumrepeur" who works from home, looks after her daughter and runs her own business Wordsby Communications. Read Amy's top tips for mums considering becoming their own...
Author and creative writing academic Dr Paul Magrs puts The New Arrival in his Top 10 books of 2014
Paul said, "I’ve read 48 books so far this year, and it’s tricky whittling even this number down. But here are the ten..." find out what other books made it into his Top 10 for the first quarter of 2014 on his blog Life on Magrs.
Discover Your History magazine feature
"Through Sarah's recollections we not only learn about life for a young and determined nurse in 1970s, but also what it was like to live in a time that saw a failing government, strikes, increasing immigration and the struggle for women's rights. It certainly offers a...
Female First Exclusive Interview with Sarah Beeson MBE
Sarah talks about life in Hackney, nursing highs and lows, what made her go in health visiting, receiving the MBE and what's coming up next. Read the interview.