Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.