I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

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.