The U.K. Has always had a special relationship with the E.U.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her - and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.