Monica Heisey on seeing the funny side of divorce

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It’s often ranked as one of the most stressful experiences that a person can face: divorce is, perhaps, not an obvious choice for comic material but writer Monica Heisey tells us how facing heartbreak at a young age provided nuggets of humour at a dark time. As her début novel “Really good, actually” is translated into French, Monica discusses how social media has encouraged us to provide an unfiltered series of updates on our emotional states. We talk about her work on celebrated series like “Workin’ Moms” and “Schitt’s Creek”, and why the current writer’s strike has high stakes in an era of streaming, and amid huge demand for high-quality audiovisual content.