I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.