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Q: What were you like at school?
I loved school, except being beaten on the leg with a ruler in front of the class.
Q: What did you want to be when you were a child?
A brave princess on a white horse, galloping about rescuing people. And a writer.
Q: Which three words describe you best?
Nosy. Talkative. Dreamy.
Q: What is your favourite word?
North.
Q: What makes you cringe?
Plug-in air fresheners. Swede. Sea cucumbers. Sorry…
Q: What are you afraid of?
Coldness.
Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?
Five minutes ago, at our dog snuffling and racing in the snow
Q: What is your most treasured possession?
Three tall treasures - my husband, son and daughter
Q: What do you do as a hobby?
I read, learn Greek, listen to live music, walk, cook, grow things, get Greek ferries, watch plays and films,
Q: What strange habits do you have?
Sometimes I flap my hands – my mum said I did that soon after I was born.
Q: What’s your favourite food?
Mango, almonds, vanilla and Co-op seriously fruity yoghourts
Q: What do you day dream about?
Everything, especially my stories. And my dreams at night are very real.
Q: What’s the most outrageous thing you’ve done?
I’m not telling you.
Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
Musician or (loud) librarian
Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?
Much younger (though I don’t look it!)
Q: If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
J.G.Ballard - dead Jane Gardam - alive
Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?
Dedication.
Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
A cafe at the tip-top of an island. The owner said he had NEVER left it, not even for someone’s funeral…
Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Trust in your own judgement
Q: What would you most like to change about yourself?
I often speak before I’ve thought it through!
Q: What has life taught you?
Treasure what you have – it’s a lot.
Q: How long have you been a writer?
Ever since I could hold a pencil
Q: Was there a specific moment in your life when you decide to become a writer?
One of my lecturers at university suggested I should write for a living and that gave me a great deal of confidence.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
In a little room that looks onto a hillside. There’s a brook with herons and kingfishers – blink and you’ll miss them.
Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?
I love having that story world safe in my imagination. I love it when I can share it in a book. I love writing a story and having someone illustrate it.
Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?
My life and my imagination, like everyone else does.
Q: What do you do to combat “writers’ block”?
Writer’s block? Be careful what you wish for, but I have so many ideas, I wish sometimes they’d slow down. They wake me at 3 o’clock in the morning.
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
The Tailor of Gloucester . This was a legend re-told by Beatrix Potter and so different from her other books. And The Midnight Folk, by John Masefield.
Q: What book do you wish you had written?
The one I am dreaming about now. I’ll begin to write it in April or May.
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Write the first draft for yourself.
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ISBN
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ISBN
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ISBN
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ISBN
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Mine
ISBN
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The Dolphin Bracelet’ in `Like Mother, Like Daughter’
ISBN
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Published By
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Eleven o’clock Chocolate Cake’
ISBN
1405202742
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ISBN
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