I never really know the title of a book until it's finished..

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front..

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety..

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marria….

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier..

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage..

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write..

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination..

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises..

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a dome….

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere..

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part ….

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car..

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people..

I don't write for any particular kind of person..

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's t….

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They ….

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse..

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot..

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imag….