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Q: What were you like at school?
I always tried hard and wanted to do well.
Q: What did you want to be when you were a child?
A super hero with special powers.
Q: What is your favourite word?
I’ve always liked the word serendipity and its meaning.
Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?
On holiday with my family.
Q: What’s your favourite food?
I’ve always loved Italian food. And I have a sweet tooth. In fact, I'll try anything, I love my food.
Q: What do you day dream about?
Living in the middle of the countryside, surrounded by beautiful scenery and growing vegetables with some chickens scratching around.
Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
Any profession that would allow me to be creative.
Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?
I always feel younger than my age because I never really grew up.
Q: If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
Roger McGough because I love his poetry and he inspired me.
Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?
Kindness.
Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
India.
Q: Was there a specific moment in your life when you decide to become a writer?
On the train home one afternoon I started shaping a story in my mind that went on to become my first picture book - Lila and the Secret of Rain.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
In my shed or at the kitchen table.
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
Q: What book do you wish you had written?
As a picture book author Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. More generally, Summer with Monika by Roger McGough.
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Keep at it and never give up.
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