It feels good to know that I skipped the whole coming-of-age story debut and that I didn’t peak too early! I think there are many ways to have a writing career and maybe I’m not sorry to have missed out on being young and hungry in a garret. I hope my novel suggests that you can have many chapters to your life and that it is never too late to begin a new passion. You don’t have to make a career out of it – my foray into modern dance, for example, was never going to prosper – but it may enrich your life.