I Am Not A Victim. I Am

I Met My Second Husband On A Bus. We Looked At Each Other And That Was It. We Were Both Married To Other People At The Time And Behaved Badly, But We Didn't Seem To Have Any Choice. We Were Very Happy For Nearly 50 Years And Would Still Be Together If It Wasn't For The Bloody Railways.

Margaret Thatcher Was In My Year, And Our First-year College Photograph Shows Us Standing Side By Side In The Back Row. We Were Both Grammar School Girls On State Scholarships.

Adults Get More Confused By Social Worker Jargon. Unlike Children, They Are Also Less Likely To See Two Sides Of An Argument, And They No Longer Think They Can Make The World A Better Place. That Can Make Them Rather Boring, I Suppose.

All Writers Are Thieves; Theft Is A Necessary Tool Of The Trade.

I Hope In My Books I Help Children To See Their Strengths, And Show Them I Have Some Idea Of What They May Occasionally Be Going Through. Especially At Tricky Moments When It Is Easier To Go Back And Evade Things Rather Than Go Forwards And Confront Them.