The bestselling author talks to us about experiences that inspired her writing, having her first book published at 60, and her new novel Before the Rains
While I was at university, I fell pregnant.
Jamie was born one year before my finals. Although I was living with his father, it was difficult as there was no such thing as a crèche back then. I remember the bucket of nappies in the backyard and no washing machine– yet somehow I managed to pass!
But by the time I graduated, Jamie’s father and I had split up. It was all too much. Without a job, I ended up living in a commune with a band, which actually suited me as a single parent, in that there was constant company and the children always had somebody to play with. At the same time, it was quite old-fashioned. The men were mostly on the road with the band, and the women were the ones doing the gardening and looking after the goats and baking bread. I was never a real hippy. For me that was simply a period when I did something different. In some ways I’m unconventional, but in others I’m very conventional.
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