We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.