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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lucy Mangan

Digested week: The era of the big night out is over. Finally a world remade to suit me

People at a busy bar
No more nights of loud, pointless misery – it’s home and bed by nine. Photograph: Everynight Images/Alamy

Monday

Today I begin three days of being locked in a tiny, soundproofed, windowless room, alone except for a book. In so many ways, it is the dream. The only flaw is that the book is one I wrote and I have to read it aloud into a microphone so that it may be recorded and turned into an audiobook. So really, it’s three days of continuous talking and of periodically hearing your voice played back to you so that you can hear where you went wrong. In other words, the nightmare.

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