Mother Mother: A poignant journey of friendship and forgiveness

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Photograph: David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images Annie Mac presents the award for best international female solo artist at the Brit awards 2021. She is ending her Radio 1 tenure for professional and personal reasons, wanting more time with her children, who start school in September, and a break from radio to explore what she wants to do next. By the time she had finished the course, with 35,000 words in the bag, she worked towards a first draft.

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I was so ambitious and hungry for new experiences while also living so unhealthily and being completely skint.The former Strictly star previously presented The Official Chart and Live Lounge on the station and said she is 'beyond honoured' to start her new gig.

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It follows Mary McConnell and her son TJ, 18, who wakes one morning and finds his mother has gone missing. When I met Ben in a City bar to talk about the draft he told me that he and his wife had read it and loved it. I loved the immediacy of this technique; the idea of starting the day with nothing and finishing with a brand-new character in the world.In my head was the idea that my youngest was starting school in September and me wanting to be more around in the evenings,” says the 42-year-old Dubliner, who has two sons (whom she prefers not to name) aged four and seven with her husband, Thomas Bell, aka the DJ Toddla T. it was more about how much I fucking loved writing, the idea of this door opening to another way of living, and another way of having a career. When she's not interviewing celebrities you can find her exploring new countryside walking routes, catching up with friends over good food, or making memories. I was always surrounded by noise – I had two brothers and a sister, and at any given time in our house people would be playing the piano, guitar, the mandolin, the bouzouki, the bodhrán, the accordion or the saxophone.

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Running a festival, playing high up in line-ups at festivals, putting on music conferences – these things are not traditionally things that I see women doing.An astute investigator of personalities and creativity, there’s a poetry to her instigating such an alternation in her own life. Macmanus began writing in 2018 during a period of “frantic experimentation” shortly after turning 40. I am a naturally very impulsive person and I worried that my lack of desire to strategise and plot would mean I didn’t have the capacity for writing a novel. Before then, my life was edging closer to the precipice of the adventure of adulthood, but moving to London was jumping into the pool.

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Annie then elaborated on her decision to leave Radio 1 as she appeared on Tuesday's episode of The One Show. The JFK assassination 60 years on: Oswald shot Kennedy then killed a cop, hid in a cinema - and was attacked.Annie Mac will be writing more fiction and creating podcasts following her departure from her Radio 1 show. Annie Mac’ came about when I started in radio – my boss at the time said I should abbreviate it because it would roll off the tongue better.