I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.

Careful," he smiled, "I'm lethal.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

She promised to be good. She wasn't.