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I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one in publishing.

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.