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Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

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As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

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The wheels of publishing never slow down.

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Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for widows or lone spinsters.

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The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.

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My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.

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I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.

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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

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I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

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I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: November 25th, 1947

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