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Hello, I'm Lauren Luverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards,

a collection of funny and heartwarming moments from some of our many castaways.

Today's castaway is the Scottish writer Val McDermid,

who spoke to Kirsty Young about her childhood love of libraries back in 2013.

I just worked my way around the fiction shells.

And although you could take four books out at a time, two of them had to be non-fiction.

It's heaven for fend you should just have unmitigated pleasure.

So I was reading really anything I could get my hands on,

and the library did become my second home.

Growing up in Fife, you've said that you felt different from other people. Can you articulate that feeling?

I felt like an outsider. I didn't feel that my concerns were the same as the concerns of my contemporaries.

I grew up in Corcorian and I went to a school that was very strongly academic. But Fife was in many ways quite a parochial, quite a closed world. And generally

speaking in Fife, if you were bright, you went to Edinburgh or St Andrews University. And if you

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