Janet Ellis and Kirsty Wark Interviewed by Lucy Atkins

Novelists and television presenters Janet Ellis and Kirsty Wark talk about their latest works and their writing in conversation with fellow novelist Lucy Atkins.

Ellis is best known as a former presenter of the BBC children’s programme Blue Peter and is also an actress who has starred in radio and television programmes. Her debut novel The Butcher’s Hook was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her latest is How it Was, a dark novel set in rural Kent about a woman who lights a fuse under her marriage and about the complexity of family and mother-daughter relationships.

Wark is a journalist and broadcaster who has presented many programmes over 30 years including the Late Show and Newsnight. Her debut novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Her new novel, The House by the Loch, is a story of family drama and secrets set in the beautiful Scottish countryside.

Here they talk to journalist and novelist Atkins, author of The Night Visitor, The Other Child and The Missing One.