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?

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

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

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

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?

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.