{"id":17340,"date":"2026-03-17T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/story\/bailey\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:32:57","slug":"bailey","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/story\/bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this video, LifeBook Memoirs ghostwriter Bailey shares how her love of stories \u2013 and especially family stories \u2013 led her to start writing private autobiographies and memoirs. She talks about studying folklore, why memoir writing feels like such a natural fit and why she believes the stories that families tell again and again are often the ones that matter most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bailey also reflects on how easy it is for people to underestimate the value of their own lives. Drawing on the experience of interviewing her 96-year-old grandfather for his memoir, she talks about the hesitation that many people feel when asked to tell their story and why those quiet, ordinary memories are often the most meaningful. For Bailey, it is not only dramatic or extraordinary events that deserve to be preserved, but the moments of love, connection and influence that shape a life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Testimonial from LifeBook Memoirs US-based ghostwriter, Bailey.\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Nj7PXFAmus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear ghostwriter Bailey reflect on family stories, human connection and the true value of &#8216;ordinary lives&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17247,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Ghostwriter Testimonial: Bailey | LifeBook | Memoirs & Autobiographies","_seopress_titles_desc":"Hear ghostwriter Bailey reflect on family stories, human connection and the true value of 'ordinary lives\".","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":""},"story-category":[236],"class_list":["post-17340","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","story-category-team-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/17340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"story-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-category?post=17340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}