As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.