I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

I'm very close to my parents. I admire them and respect them enormously. But my childhood unfortunately coincided with the end of their marriage. They are two people who should never, ever have got married.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!