Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
Nina BawdenAll writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
Nina BawdenI like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.
Nina BawdenI wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.
Nina Bawden