I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways.

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.