Our Stories Are The Tellers Of Us.

I'm Really Interested In People's Decisions.

And Thus Love Makes Fools Of Us All.

Yet War Doesn't End With Armistice, It Only Ends With Forgiveness And Reconciliation.

I'm Always Determined That As A Novelist I'm Going To Go Out There And Research My Characters Very Thoroughly Before I Start Writing.

[my Maternal Grandmother ] Was A Teacher In London And Elsewhere During The War, Although The Children She Taught Were Not The "lost Children" Who Feature In The Novel - Those Come From My Research.