Do you put your family in your books?
Bits of them, sometimes. But mostly, as Jan Mark says: ‘Writers don’t write about people they know. They write what they know about people’. I spread the six stories out over happy and unhappy families. I admit then research did shock me. I hadn’t realised how insensitive some parents can be to children’s feelings. I hope the book’s a comfort for those in tricky situations, and an eye-opener for everyone else.
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