I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.