It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on. And it is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated. Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.