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Stark Talk: Annalena McAfee

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24/05/2017

Annalena McAfee

BBC Radio Scotland - Stark Talk, Annalena McAfee

Edi Stark talks to author and former leading cultural editor Annalena McAfee.

Edi Stark talks to author and former leading cultural editor Annalena McAfee about growing up in a large eccentric family in London as the daughter of Irish and Scots parents.

Edi goes to Bloomsbury to meet author and former leading cultural editor, Annalena McAfee who talks about growing up in a large eccentric family in London, the daughter of Irish/Scots parents who sent her to school wearing an SNP badge and refused to stand for the National anthem. Heaven, was getting on the bus from London with her brother and spending childhood holidays with her aunt in a 1940's housing scheme near Gartcosh. Her love of Scotland is lifelong.
At convent school, she was sent to elocution lessons and, to her regret, now sounds 'like Hayley Mills'. She dropped out of university to pursue a career in journalism, starting at Marvel Comics. Eleven years ago, she left her job as founder and editor of The Guardian Review to become a novelist which she admits was a brave move when the person writing at the other end of the house, is her second husband, the best selling literary writer, Ian McEwan who she met when interviewing him for the Financial Times .

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