Lucy Howard-Taylor, fundraiser, author and poet sits with Alice in a cafe in London, talking about how to be useful in the world, whether you need to be a very good writer to be a writer at all, and how to deal with having a good life, and a lot of time to think about it.

Find Lucy on instagram as @ lucyshena or her website http://lucyhowardtaylor.com

alice is at @aliterative as ever