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"My job was taking over my life. My former partner died. I had to be forced to take time off. It's not been an easy year"

Edinburgh Book Festival director Catherine Lockerbie speaks for the first time about 12 months of trauma ... and those rumours of an eating disorder by Vicky Allan

There are just days to go until this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival starts, and its director, Catherine Lockerbie, has been back from a lengthy sick leave for only a week.