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"The library was my salvation"
Author Val McDermid on the huge role reading played in her childhood
- "The library was my salvation"
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
- "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
- A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
- The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
- British Country Life: Heaven Or Hell?
- "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
- "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
- A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
- "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
- 鈥淏lack fatherhood is definitely something we don鈥檛 see enough鈥
- "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
- 鈥淚t wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out鈥
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