After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.