We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.
“My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.”
“I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.”