First draft is usually in a notebook - I like the process of mind to pen to paper. It works for me. So I can write in a café or or on a park bench or wherever... Favourite writing place is anywhere with a sea view!
2) What is the first book you remember reading?
I read the AA Milne poems about Christopher Robin and co - When we were very young/ now we are six (I think that's right) and it turned me on to poetry at a very young age! I learnt loads of them and can still recite 'James, James, Morrison, Morrison, Weatherby George Dupree, took great care of his mother though he was only three... (I mean - how useful is that??) First fiction was definitely Enid Blyton - the Secret Seven doing something or other terribly exciting along with lashings of ginger beer and a spread of peanut butter sandwiches...
3) Do you have a favourite literary character?
Can't decide between Elizabeth Bennett and Pooh Bear. I think it has to be Pooh.
4) Is there a book by an another author that you wish you had written?
Almost anything by Anita Shreve.
5) What's the best advice you have ever received?
Never give up. You can do it.
6) What's the worst advice you have ever received?
Give up. What makes you think you can ever become a writer? (Although come to think of it that might be the best because I'm very stubborn and like to prove negative people wrong...)
7) What are you currently reading?
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh for research purposes and The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas for light relief.
8) Who is your hero or heroine?
Leonard Cohen is my musical hero and my heroine is every Suffragette who sacrificed something to give women a voice.
9) Where are you happiest?
In West Dorset by the sea and in El Cotillo, Fuerteventura by the sea.
10) Who would be at your dream dinner party (can be living or dead)?
Leonard Cohen, DH Lawrence, Bob Dylan, Jane Austen, my husband and my children.
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