‘I carried around in my head a whole pantheon of dead family members, to each of whom a story was attached; often tragic, sometimes scandalous. I didn’t have my mother’s talent for talking but I enjoyed writing.’
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‘As darkness fell on each painful night, I reconstructed the book from memory, trying to get a little further each time before looking back at the text. Instead of dwelling on the life I couldn’t live I retold this story.’
‘Quality TV drama writers inspire me to script scenes exactly as they happen in my head and to learn from the way people speak in real life… at the most dramatic moments of our lives, we rarely channel Shakespeare.’