Alice Feeney
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194 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Alice Feeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you so much for having me.
I just think it's a great podcast. I listened. It's the first podcast I've listened to all the way through. I was hooked. I thought I have been missing out. I'm basically an old lady trapped in a slightly younger woman's body. And what have I been doing all this time? This is the place to be. It's better late than never, right?
Yes, sold out already. I can't believe it. It's launch day. Yes. One day in. What an amazing problem to have. What a lovely problem to have. How do you feel? I'm so excited. This book was so long in the making and I loved writing this one. You know, I've written seven. I've had seven books published now. I've written a few more that have not been published.
But for it to finally be out in the world just feels like magic. And I love that readers can finally...
They've done such a terrific job. I love it. And I love that this is the first time I have the same cover everywhere. So the same cover in America will be in England. It's in Australia. It's in India, everywhere. It's the same cover coming out.
I asked for it to be the same cover everywhere this time because I just fell in love with it. It was designed for the American cover and I thought it was so perfect for the book. So beautiful. So not ugly at all, actually, for a book called Beautiful Ugly, just beautiful. And I thought it'd be fun to have the same cover everywhere this time around.
And I love actually seeing all the different covers in different countries. We're in 40 countries now and it's so fun. You know, a box arrives at the house and I open it like a kid at Christmas going, oh my goodness,
which one is this but it's also really fun I think because so many readers now are on social media and they'll all say oh no I wish I could get this cover I wish I could get the other other cover or if only I could have the British version and this time everyone can enjoy the same one and we can all share and talk about the same book
I think people just do it. I think they fall in love with a story and they want every different edition of the same story. And why not? It is fun seeing them all on the shelf together.
I said I wanted the same thing this time. And I said, please, could we have foil? I think I'm secretly a magpie. I like shiny things. And not only did they give me foil, they gave me holographic foil.
I think it's the best thing ever I love my publishers um so it's so pretty and there are other pretty things inside as well um I drew a map when I handed the book in um every year I like to surprise them with something sometimes I have little illustrations this year I had a map and um even my editor was you know very nice on the phone but she said just to clarify you want a map at the start of a thriller um because normally you might find them in fantasy books I thought yeah
Yes, why not? I want everyone to picture the Isle of Amberley. So they said yes, but then they called me back and said, we'll do it, but we'll get a professional artist to do it.
It's not my version. But that's okay. My version is not nearly as good as the beautiful version inside the book. So I think it was a good call.
No, no, I don't. They're all quite dark and twisty. I think I write, sometimes the books are quite different from each other. Daisy Darker, for example, felt very different to this book. I think if people enjoyed Rock, Paper, Scissors. I was just about to say that. I hope they'll like this one.
They've definitely got a few things in common. We've got Scotland again. We've got, it's about a writer again who disappears to Scotland again.
and of course there's there's a dog um and I always feel very sorry for my mother-in-law who is one of my number one fans because I keep writing about unhappy marriages and I'm actually very happily married but when when I write about authors who have a black Labrador and I have a black Labrador who go to Scotland to write and I go to Scotland to write right I know that as soon as it's UK publication day she'll be on the phone saying is my son okay um so um
So yes, it's always fun when people think, is she the character in this book? But no, I'm not. I'm not Grady Green. But maybe some parts of you are in the characters? Oh, yes. There are definitely a few bits of me sprinkled between the pages in this one in a way that I almost didn't realize when I was writing it.
And it was actually only when we were doing the audio book, which came so much later after the edits, a few months had gone by. I was working on another book by then. And I was listening to Richard Armitage narrate the audiobook. And he did a terrific job, by the way. Sure. There are parts where I feel like we've got a cast of 20 people because Richard can be an elderly Scottish woman.
Richard can be a 40-year-old man. Richard can be an East End pub landlord. And you think you're listening to – he's terrific. And it sounds like he's having fun when he's doing it. But there are a few bits when I was listening to the audiobook where I thought – Crikey. Yeah, that's very similar to things that have happened to me as an author. I wonder where I got that idea from.
So there are a few bits like that.
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