Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

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.

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

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

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