Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?