I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.