Kirsty Wark WORLD PREMIERE - Literary Salon - February 2019

Kirsty Wark has anchored Newsnight since 1993. She famously clashed with Margaret Thatcher and has interviewed every Prime Minister since - and probably also whoever it is that will be Prime Minister next month. She premiered her first novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, at the Salon almost exactly five years ago. Tonight, she returns to take us all to The House By The Loch –don’t let your American publishers change that to Lake. Wark’s second novel is set in Galloway- one the most beautiful and least well-known parts of Scotland, even to many Scots. This sparsely populated but spare and beautiful landscape anchors three generations of one family struggling with grief in the present and a secret from the past. As with her debut, The House by the Loch draws on historic events and, inevitably, her own personal history but Jean and Walter and their families aren’t real. It had me reading fast just to find out what happens next then slowing down just to admire the view. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices