Nicola Sturgeon: My dream now is to write a novel
Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said writing a novel is now her dream after stepping down from the post in February.
Ms Sturgeon appeared at an event with comedian Janey Godley as part of the Aye Write book festival at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall on Friday, where she revealed her dream “now” is to write a novel.
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She told viewers, “I’m so jealous that you (Janey Godley) wrote a novel.”
“It is now my dream to write a novel, but I will never do it.”
The event was held to discuss Godley’s novel Nothing Left Unsaid, set in Shettleston and set in the summer of 1976.
Godley jokingly told her, “You’re going to have a lot of material.”
Ms Sturgeon then said: “Most of it is probably criminal!”
The former SNP leader, who resigned in March after eight years in office, dropped further hints that a memoir on her tenure might be in the works.
She also admitted she’s had a “tough time” in recent weeks as police investigations into the SNP’s finances intensified.
She said: “I’m no stranger to stress in my life.
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“Maybe there have been days in the past few weeks that I thought I was going to have a hard time.”
Ms Sturgeon said it was a rarity to hear “authentic working class women’s voices” in many walks of life and said she recalled women joining “menages” – self-managed austerity schemes and soup pots featured in Godley’s novel.
Godley, who was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, went viral on social media for hilariously dubbing Ms Sturgeon’s Covid briefings.
The pair discussed how the voiceovers came about, which Godley revealed she’s always done.
She reconsidered doing them during the Covid pandemic because the virus was affecting people, but it was her daughter Ashley Storrie who encouraged her to keep doing them.
She said: “We just did it for the sake of it, and the first time I did it I was like, ‘I can’t, people have died. That’s not the right thing.”
“But when they took off, people told me they were really funny.”
Ms Sturgeon said: “They always said two things in it: ‘My feet killed me’.”
“My feet used to kill me, and I was starving and most of all I was starving.”
Among the most popular were Ms. Sturgeon’s, which often ended with the now infamous phrase, “Frank! Go to the door!”
Godley revealed that Frank is based on a man who read “cowboy books” at the bar where she used to work.
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