Alice Feeney
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194 appearances
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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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Why Scotland? I think the honest truth is because I go there every year, I'm just obsessed with the place. I think if there's a more beautiful place in the world, I've yet to find it. It's so unspoilt. It's so rugged and beautiful and perfect. And you can walk for miles and miles for hours with your dog on it. I am so much like Grady.
Every time I say something to you about the book, I think, oh gosh, yes, we have that in common too. But yeah, I think it's just this magical, magical place for me. And I've had so many happy things happen to me in Scotland that I now feel like it's just linked to my writing. You know, I finished writing Sometimes I Lie in Scotland and then I finally got an agent.
I remember being up in Scotland in a terrible snowstorm. We really shouldn't have travelled. It was so unsafe. Nobody else was on the roads. We drove for eight hours from London up to Scotland. We... I ended up arriving at this very rural house that we'd rented that was honestly so creepy and in the middle of nowhere. We went inside the house. There was no water.
The pipes were frozen because of the storm. There was no power. There was nothing. We thought maybe we should get back in the car. The car by then was totally snowed in, couldn't leave. So we thought we'll make the most of it. You know, we'll light a fire. We'll open some wine.
Yes. And then just before bedtime, there was a face in the window. And I've never screamed so loud. We were nowhere near anyone. We were in the middle of a valley. And in real life, it was just a caretaker screaming.
who came to check that we were okay because everyone thought we were crazy still going to this house when there was a terrible storm but why did they go to the window why exactly because apparently apparently he said apparently he said oh I knocked on the door and you didn't hear me but I felt like I was in a horror film um But, you know, then my imagination turned it into rock, paper, scissors.
So again, Scotland delivered this amazing story for me. And I've had so many happy experiences like that. I feel like it inspires stories in my head. I feel like I get so much writing done when I'm there. It's like the speed increases by double. So now I'm just in love with the place. So if I sit for a year writing about it, it means I get to be there even when I'm not.
I think that's that's part of it, too.
One day, I hope. Yeah. It's very slow. I feel like... What is? The book? No. Oh, I was going to say. The book's super fast. I enjoyed that one. I feel like because I worked in journalism for so long, working for the BBC in the newsroom, everything is fast. A story breaks in the morning, I've got it on air by lunchtime.
Publishing... I write the book. Sometimes it isn't out for a year or a year and a half later. And you've already finished the next book. I've already finished the next one. I'm on to the two books ahead. And television, in my experience so far, takes even longer. But I've made peace with that now because now I've seen them actually film my TV show. I'm like... It is worth the wait, guys.
Yeah, I'm so excited. Let's do it again.
Is there a publishing date? I think it will probably end up being this time next year. Okay. So not too long to wait. No, it's not too long.
They do, don't they? I mean, everything I think just keeps coming around so quickly. Suddenly it's birthdays and Christmases and Halloween. It's like we just did this five minutes ago.
Like have a main character that worked for... No, I'm just not that interesting in real life. Sometimes people say, why don't you narrate your own audiobooks? I'm like, oh gosh, I don't like the sound of my own voice.
I think I'm a bit of a control freak in some ways. Because they are my children. Yeah. You know, I really care about them all deeply. And I get so scared, you know, when it's publication day, for example, because it's like I'm sending my children out into the world for the first time by themselves. And I just hope everyone's going to be kind to them and take care of them.
And if anyone isn't kind to them, I hope they're strong enough to take care of themselves. Well, those strange sort of feelings, you know, that you might have about sending a child out to school for the first time or something.
you know feel about them you don't go on goodreads though right no you shouldn't no I try to um the only I read I read reviews when they're good and people send them to me so my team my family my friends will send me the good ones yeah um and I think you've got to be quite um you've got to just kind of roll with the punches a little bit with that it's not possible to write a book that everyone is going to love it's simply not possible and I remember even in year one I learned very early on don't read reviews
but also I learned not to pay too much attention to reviews. I remember my favorite Amazon review is a five-star review on Amazon. And then the description just says, great. And below that it says, this is the best dog brush I've ever used on my Husky. It gets rid of all the dead fur. And I just thought, Well, I'll take it. That's still a five star review.
I still worry that somewhere there is a really brilliant dog brush out there with a one star review that says this book sucks. You know, because clearly they got them in a muddle. So no, the reviews I mostly care about, honestly, cross my heart are reader reviews. When people post a review on Instagram or something like that and they tag me in it. I read all of those.
I look at the beautiful pictures they take of my books all around the world. And it brings me so much joy when a reader has genuinely loved reading one of my books. When they get it, you know, it's the best feeling in the world.
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