I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.