The People's Friend

Zoe Venditozzi grew up in northeast Fife in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow to study English.

Following stints as letters editor at the People's Friend and selling answer phones at BT, Zoe qualified as an English teacher in New Zealand in 1999.

Shortly after she moved back to Scotland, where she started a family, working in various schools and gained a master's in writing from the University of Dundee.

After publishing her debut novel, Anywhere's Better Than Here, Zoe kept teaching in lots of settings, including schools, universities, museums, libraries, children's homes, and on the HMS Unicorn, and also became a writer-in-residence at Roxburgh House in Aberdeen and reader-in-residence for Dundee Libraries.

We won't get it.

Okay, it's called The People's Friend.

Oh.

Which is a very innocuous name for...

Sounds like a

period.

Yeah, but doesn't it also sound like the most old-fashioned thing that there ever was? This magazine's like, oh, what are you reading there? I'm just reading The People's Friend.

You know, and it's like all these...