At New Year's He Had Given Anne

[margaret Thatcher] Assumed Somehow That This Would Get The Woman Voter And All Those Juvenile Male Voters Who Wanted A Well-regulated Household With A Woman Who Knew What She Should Be Doing.

I Only Became A Novelist Because I Thought I Had Missed My Chance To Become A Historian.

My First Career Ambitions Involved Turning Into A Boy; I Intended To Be Either A Railway Guard Or A Knight Errant.

It Is All Very Well Planning What You Will Do In Six Months, What You Will Do In A Year, But It’s No Good At All If You Don’t Have A Plan For Tomorrow.

My First Book Was A Historical Novel. I Started Writing In 1974. In Those Days, Historical Novels Meant Ladies With Swelling Bosoms On The Cover. Basically, It Meant Historical Romance. It Was Not Respectable As A Genre.