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.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

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.

All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.

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.