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Ashleigh Rainbird

Vicky McClure's debut children's book is love letter to Skegness caravan park

Line of Duty’s Vicky McClure’s debut children’s book is a love letter to a caravan park in Skegness.

The actress is so enamoured with the seaside town, she took her husband there for a romantic weekend during a break in filming the BBC police drama.

But she fears people have forgotten the magic of the holiday destination, so wants to encourage children to dream of going there.

“It’s wholesome,” she coos of Skeggy. “You meet brilliant people, everybody mucks in, you go to the club house at night and there’s a bingo caller.

“I love it - I don’t want it to die out.”

Her new book is a love letter to Skegness (James Turner/Lincolnshire Live)

Her partner Jonny had - shamefully - never been, so Vicky took him a few years ago.

“We got a B&B, it was brilliant - it pissed it down all weekend,” she says, merrily.

Her new book, Castle Rock Mystery Crew, recalls her family holidays and she says she still enjoys the same sort of trips, admitting she can get “bored” in fancy hotels.

Vicky, who probably deserves funding from the Lincolnshire tourist board – was inspired by the film Stand By Me, and tells Alan Carr’s Life’s A Beach podcast the book aims to “encourage people to get back to the caravans”.

She has also included a character with dementia, to acknowledge her work with the Dementia Choir and to normalise the illness.

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