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I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.

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I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.

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The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy.

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'Ralph's Party' was a romantic comedy, and at the end of it, the two main characters, Ralph and Jen, kiss for the first time and think they're going to be happy together. Then, 10 years later, I wrote a sequel in which they've been together for 10 years and are about to split up.

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My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.

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I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.

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I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.

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I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

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My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When he first met my mum, he swept her off into this big, social world.

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My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: July 19th, 1968

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