Taking The Humour Out Of

'affinity' Is Beautiful And Intense, With No Laughs. It's A Rather Delicate And Emotional Love Story, With A Spooky Element.

I Had A Mother Who Was Very Emotionally Demanding, Wanting To Be The Centre Of Attention. As They Say In Eastenders, She Thought It Was All About 'er. I Spent A Lot Of Time Trying To Work Out What Was Going On.

As A Fairly Innocent Teenager, Growing Up In A Village In Wales, I Just Thought, "god, I Would Like To Go And Hang About Soho And Write Great Poetry And Try To Avoid Drinking Myself To Death."

My Wife Likes History And Documentaries, But I'm Not So Keen On Them. I Generally Go And Do Some Work If There's One Of Those On.

Look At Jane Austen. Her Characters Derive In A Reasonably Straight Line From Fairy Tales.