How it works.
A careful process built around conversation, memory, and trust.
From conversation to private family memoir
Kindred begins with recorded conversations. We guide the person through the memories, people, places, and turning points that shaped their life.
Those recordings are then transcribed, organised, and edited into a clear private memoir for the family. The result is not a raw transcript, and not a fictionalised biography. It is a shaped life story, written to be read and kept.
The process is designed to feel simple for the person being interviewed, and reassuring for the family arranging it.
How it works
A careful process, designed to make the telling easy and the finished story readable.
Introductory Call
We understand whose story you want to preserve, what matters most, and whether the process is a good fit.
Recorded Interviews
Four guided conversations of around 60–90 minutes, covering childhood, family, work, love, turning points, lessons, and legacy.
Editorial Shaping
The recordings are transcribed, organised, edited, and shaped into a readable life-story manuscript.
Final Revisit
We check names, dates, missing scenes, and important details before preparing the finished private family document.
What is included?
The core private memoir process usually includes:
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An introductory call
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Four guided recorded interviews
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Transcription of the conversations
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Organisation of the material into a clear structure
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Editorial shaping into readable prose
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A final review conversation
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A polished private family manuscript in digital form
What this service is not:
Kindred is not a quick automated life-story questionnaire.
It is also not a full commercial ghostwriting package designed for bookshops, agents, or public publication. That kind of work usually requires a much larger editorial process, with more interviews, deeper structural development, scene work, rewriting, and public positioning.
The core Kindred service is more intimate and more focused: to preserve a life story beautifully and faithfully for the family.
Typical investment:
The core private memoir process begins at around £2,000.
This usually includes four guided interviews, transcription, editorial shaping, and a final review conversation before delivery of the private family manuscript.
Larger family archive projects, printed editions, photo-rich books, audio packages, or public-facing memoir development can be quoted separately.