I haven’t had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don’t notice.

I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.