Val McDermid reveals women know more about fear than men

By Karen Hardy
Updated September 27 2014 - 10:18am, first published September 21 2014 - 9:38am
Dagger drawn: Crime novelist Val McDermid has a new book out.
Dagger drawn: Crime novelist Val McDermid has a new book out.

Crime writer Val McDermid was only 17 when she left home to read English at Oxford. She was the first student from a Scottish state school to do so and one of their youngest undergraduates. It was there she met Dr Kathy Wilkes, a philosophy don, who was involved in the secret university movement behind the Iron Curtain during the 1980s and early '90s.

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