For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.
The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.