If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

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.

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.