All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.

We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow. OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.