As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I di...
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a wri...
My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top T...
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. A...
Shame, like beauty, is often in the e...
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all...
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more...
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that o...
I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the...
Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island the...
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception an...
