Their life story, told over the phone and made into a book

Once a week we ring your mum, dad or grandparent for a chat about their life. There's no computer, no typing and nothing to learn. Each call becomes a chapter the family can keep.

Ask about a book

What a chapter reads like

The house on Cardigan Road

We lived in a back-to-back with an outside toilet, and my mam took in washing. Every Monday the whole kitchen was steam. You couldn't see the window for sheets.

There were six of us in two bedrooms. I shared with our Doreen until the day she got married, and I cried for a week. Not because I'd miss her, but because she took the good blanket.

This is an example we wrote to show the style. Real chapters use the storyteller's own words from their calls.

How it works

You tell us about themTheir name, their phone number, a day and time that suits them, and anything we should know, such as subjects to go gently on.
We ring once a weekEach call is about twenty minutes on one part of their life: childhood, school, work, family. They can also ring us whenever a memory comes back.
Every call becomes a chapterYou read each new chapter on a private family page. At the end you have the whole story in one piece, to keep and to print.

The interviewer is a computer voice, and it says so. On the first call it explains who arranged the calls and that they are recorded, and asks whether they're happy to go ahead. If they say no, we don't ring again.

It works on any phone, landline or mobile. You can have everything deleted at any time.

Ask about a book

Tell us who the book would be for and we'll email you back with the details.