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I loved 'A Lion in the Meadow' by Margaret Mahy.

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People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's quite similar in writing. People forget that you're a human; they just want to give you their advice.

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I spend a ridiculous amount on pots, lilacs, and alliums.

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When I was very small, I loved 'Meg And Mog' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. I had all the books and remember going to see the theatre production.

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Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

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I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

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It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing.

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The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and it's not surprising to me either, but knowing this, feeling this, definitely made writing my second book harder.

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I think I'm too scatty.

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I used to say I wasn't interested in writing about characters.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: February 27th, 1985

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