Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

But nobody can run from their own demons.