I’m delighted to be visiting the Edinburgh Festival for the first time and to be sharing a platform with Joanna Cannon. Here’s what the festival blurb says about the event:

Long-hidden secrets are about to be set free in new novels by Joanna Cannon and Jess Kidd. In Cannon’s Three Things About Elsie, a lady in a home for the elderly is about to have her world rocked when a new resident arrives looking exactly like a man who died 60 years before. Kidd’s The Hoarder has the house of a belligerent senior citizen slowly revealing its locked-up secrets. Can we ever outrun the past? Chaired by Jenny Brown.