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We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on... →
I don't write for any particular kind of person.
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before... →
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they... →
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary.... →
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took... →