coast CELEBRITY
Best-selling novelist Jenny Colgan lives on the Fife coast with her family, enjoying the walks, wildlife and sunny beaches of Scotland’s eastern flank
I grew up in Prestwick on the west coast of Scotland and moved to Fife on the east coast seven years ago after a spell living in France, so I’ve always been close to the water. It means you can breathe, I always think. We live in the town of Aberdour (pictured) in a cliff-top house above the Forth Estuary.I love that sea view, you can see the weather coming in and the boats going by, and we get some cracking sunrises in the summer. My husband’s a marine engineer who works at sea, so I always wave to the sailors as I know what it’s like to have someone so far from home, and that they’ll be missing their families.
The weather can get wild, tearing in from the west, but we also get plenty of sunshine here. In fact, there’s a long-standing saying that it’s always sunny in Fife compared to Edinburgh. Cold and bright is what we like. In the summer we and our three children head down to Silver Sands beach in Aberdour, which has beautiful golden sands and is always very busy with day-trippers and families – the water is shallow, there’s a nice café and mini golf. All year
