‘writing is such good fun’

Things didn’t quite work out the way Carol Kirkwood expected, but she’s not complaining…

At the start of the year, Carol Kirkwood was hit by a “terrible” bout of food poisoning, which triggered a lifestyle transformation that changed not just her eating habits, but her entire outlook. “Af

Our childhood beach was made of the finest sand, the sort you get in an egg-timer. I grew up in Morar, a lovely little village on the northwest coast of Scotland. My parents owned a hotel opposite the

The BBC weather presenter, 63, on getting married in her sixties, retirement plans, and her photo of the King’s nostrils

It’s a funny old world

Author Carol Kirkwood on the books that changed her life