Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.
I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.