Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.
I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead.
I had a pretty happy, loved childhood.
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened.
I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.
I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines.
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.
My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.
We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.
With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite.
