In November 2014, high-profile journalists and close friends Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales launched a podcast called Chat 10 Looks 3. Somewhat shambolic initially, it has become a much-loved, award-winning smash hit. Now they have written their first book together, Well Hello, Meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3, a hilarious, heartfelt publication in which they traverse “friendship, the vagaries of life and culture, and everything in between”.

In this extract, Leigh Sales looks back with gratitude on her music lessons as a child, explains how the teacup analogy in the memoir of Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson has become something she references every day, and how playing and listening to music is like “taking a holiday” from herself.

Leigh Sales

The year I turned 10, my mother caved in to my pestering...