Charlotte Wood

I still don't know.

They say they did get something.

So things like that, that I almost had to internalise, let digest and kind of become part of my bloodstream or something.

And then it came out in ways that are not...

There's a lot of urine in the book.

That's the two.

There's no more.

I mean, does it surprise you that people are already speculating like that?

It's just delighting me so much.

And the weird thing is that, so I have writer friends who I asked to read my work and they did, you know, in manuscripts and one of them said, I'm just sort of disappointed to know that I'm actually Adele.

I'm like, you're nothing like her.

And she said, yeah, but I'm always the one who sits down to eat the food and I never cook anything.

And then somebody else, you know, it's kind of delightful.

And then somebody else said, I want to be Jude.

I wish I was Jude.

And I'm like, you're so not Jude, you're never going to be Jude.

Because she's very nice and loving and caring.

But the thing that has really astonished me in just, you know, the book's only been out a couple of days, but I've been talking with booksellers and journalists and people before that.

And several young men in their 20s have said, oh, I love this book so much.

And I'm like, really?