But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
I've never read one book about my father.
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.