| My hair colour: | Brown and grey (alas) | |
| My eye colour: | Green | |
| My shoe size: | 8 in Australia (my feet are very wide) | |
| My star sign: | I'M A NON-BELIEVER!! (Born June 25 1961) | |
| My favourite book when child: | "An Episode of Sparrows" by Rumer Godden; "Bedtime for Frances" by Russell Hoban; and "What do you do, dear" by Maurice Sendak | |
| My favourite fictional character: | David Copperfield | |
| My favourite author: | for adults - Barbara Pym and Isaac Singer; for children - Arnold Lobel | |
| My ideal reading position: | In bed with chocolates | |
| My usual means of marking a place in a book: | A tissue or a leaf | |
| My favourite time of year: | Very hot summer, although that's probably just because I must enjoy complaining, because that's all I spend my time doing when it's that hot! | |
| My favourite time of day: | My early morning coffee - it's all downhill from then (the voice of the addict, I'm afraid...) | |
| My best time for working: | In the morning, after everyone else is at work or school and two year old Bruno is watching "Gumby The Movie" for the one hundred and twelfth time (he's learning a lot). | |
| The first piece of writing I was paid for was: | a joke in the Sunday Paper when I was twelve. The joke was - "Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking I'm a balloon!" Doctor: "Don't worry, I won't let you down." I sent it in under a false name (no reason, just a natural tendency for deception) and received a five dollar cheque. Alas, I couldn't cash it because it was in a false name, so that was a lesson! |
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| My favourite TV show: | Pingu - A WORK OF GENIUS. | |
| My favourite actor: | Paul Scofield | |
| My favourite song: | "California Dreaming" by the Mamas and the Papas, but that's just one of quite a few.... | |
| The creaure comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: | Coffee. I cannot relinquish it. | |
| My favourite sweet food: | White Chocolate Cheesecake | |
| My favourite savory food: | Very hot curries | |
| My typical bedtime is: | 10ish, but then I lie awake listening to the radio often till one or two in the morning | |
| My mousemat design: | A Panda Bear or a mousetrap | |
| The tidiest place in my home is: | A very challenging question.....perhaps my mousemat! | |
| The untidiest place in my home is: | My bedside table drawers, but they look very neat from the outside. | |
| The working tool I would least like to do without: | My editor at Penguin, Jane Godwin! (and my computer...) | |
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