They’re always bouncing off each other everybody going through periods of being more stressed and strange, and yet families usually make it, and it’s these endless refractions of who sets what off that fascinates me. I’m interested in domestic families, to me, are fascinating! I find it quite remarkable that you can have so many people with such different characters and interests living all together under the same roof. But of course when you’re writing for adults you tend to pick things that are only interesting to adults, such as in my book All Bones and Lies, which is about caring for an old person – the irritations and the responsibility.īut is there a genre you particularly enjoy writing? The target audience depends on whatever the story is, so if someone tells me a ridiculously funny story about a cat, then I’ll think Killer Cat, which goes for 7-9s. Is there an age group you particularly love writing for? And if you do write about your family and friends, you have to be very careful to disguise them or they will not stay your friends and family very long. Now we all break this rule sometimes and write about one aspect of a person we know, but people are so multifaceted (a bit like mirror balls) that if you just pick one facet of a person’s personality, they’ll never recognise themselves.
For example, a lot of the bossy mothers in the books are me – you wouldn’t want to be my daughter! But Jan Mark very wisely said, “You don’t write about people you know, you write what you know about people”. So have you ever incorporated experiences from your own life into your work?Īll the time! But I do it in a way that is thoroughly disguised.
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