I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.