Nicola Sturgeon: My dream now’s to put in writing a novel
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ormer first minister Nicola Sturgeon has stated it’s now her dream to put in writing a novel after stepping down from the position in March.
Ms Sturgeon appeared at an occasion with comic Janey Godley as a part of the Aye Write e-book competition on the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow on Friday, the place she revealed it was “now” her dream to put in writing a novel.
She advised viewers members: “I’m so jealous that you (Janey Godley) have written a novel.
“It’s my dream now to write a novel, but I’ll never do it.”
The occasion was held to debate Godley’s novel Nothing Left Unsaid, which is about in Shettleston and flashes again to the summer time of 1976.
Jokingly, Godley advised her: “You’ll have a lot of material.”
To which Ms Sturgeon stated: “Most of it is probably actionable!”
The former SNP chief, who stood down in March after eight years in workplace, dropped additional hints {that a} memoir could also be below means of her time in workplace.
She additionally acknowledged she had had a “tough time” over the previous couple of weeks whereas the police investigation into the SNP’s funds intensified.
She stated: “I’m no stranger to stress in my life.
“There have been days in the last few weeks perhaps where I thought I was having a tough time.”
Ms Sturgeon stated it was a rarity to listen to “authentic working class female voices” in lots of walks of life and stated she remembered ladies who joined “menages” – that are self-managed saving schemes and soup pots, which function in Godley’s novel.
Recently recognized with ovarian most cancers, Godley went viral on social media for her comical voiceovers of Ms Sturgeon’s Covid briefings.
The pair mentioned how the voiceovers took place the place Godley revealed she had at all times accomplished them.
She reconsidered doing them in the course of the Covid pandemic due to the affect the virus had on folks, nevertheless it was her daughter Ashley Storrie who inspired her to maintain doing them.
She stated: “We were doing these for the sake of it, when I did the first one I went: I can’t, people have died. This isn’t the right thing to do.
“But when they took off, people were saying to me they were really funny.”
Ms Sturgeon stated: “There were two things you used to say in them and it was that: ‘my feet were killing me’.
“My feet usually were killing me, and that I was starving and I usually was starving.”
Among the most well-liked had been these of Ms Sturgeon which frequently ended with a now notorious phrase: “Frank! Get the door!”
Godley revealed that Frank was primarily based on a person who learn “cowboy books” within the pub she used to work in.