It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

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.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

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

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.