![]() ![]() Anyone who's ever had a bout of insomnia knows that night feels like a whole different – and not pleasant – landscape when you can't sleep. Primarily because then they'd have been quicker to write. I've written a lot of books so to consider them as a whole and find fault is a bit of a headspin. I'd like to be astonishingly wealthy! No, on a serious note, I'm not sure what I'd change. If you could change one thing about any of your books what would it be? And it's only 8 a.m.! In my defense it was my 50th birthday a week ago and they were a gift and they need to be eaten. I am in fact nibbling on a couple as I answer this. I'm not sure about write without, but live without it would be Pick n Mix (I think they call them penny candy in America?). What is a snack you couldn't write without? I was given Peter Pan for my sixth birthday and so I think perhaps that book was the one – mainly because it's stayed in my memories so long it must have had a big impact. I was born a forever reader and my mum had me reading very young – I think I was three – and because we lived in countries without a lot of TV or movies available, books and comics ( Asterix were a favourite and I got a Captain America one from a shop in Beirut that I treasured!) were a lifeline for the imagination. I used to write in bed (I'm an early morning person) but now that I have my ridiculous dog Teddy, who is also an early morning person, we're in the park for an hour or so at 6 a.m. I'd love to say I have some super stylish and sexy office somewhere by a beach, but I write on my sofa under a sofa blanket. ![]() My TBR pile is so high at the moment with so many great advanced reader copies but I'm also planning my own next book so my reading always slows down when I'm doing that. I loved The Family Upstairs so I'm really excited to see where she goes next with it. ![]() Which book is at the top of your current To-Read list? I don't often want to read books that make me cry but I like it when the crying comes as a curveball because you've invested in the characters so much. It's probably a blessing to the world that I stopped at 43 pages. When I was 13 at boarding school, I got about 43 pages into a novel which was basically a YA rip-off of Logan's Run. I can even remember the first-grade classroom! As for fiction I used to make up little story books from as long ago as I remember, and also plays for my classmates to perform. I was at an American school in Damascus and we had writing books with lines that looked like music sheets to make sure our cursive was perfect. What is the first thing-ever-that you remember writing? Martin Godwin HarperCollins Sarah Pinborough and her new book 'Insomnia' ![]()
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