That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths.

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.