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I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

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From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

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It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

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We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

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Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

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I think everybody has a secret life.

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My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

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I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

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I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

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If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: July 3rd, 1964

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