Clare Byrne

And the next thing it's 11 o'clock.

It's such a skill, though, isn't it?

Did you have to learn how to do that for thriller type books?

So when you see authors who plot out their storylines and they've everything charted, that's just, that's not you.

That doesn't work for you.

Last night, my heart was thumping when I was reading about Jane, the main character, 25 years ago, having had a few drinks on her own, not feeling great in a pub, having a chat with this man who says to her, come and work with my family as a nanny.

And she gets in the car and she goes with him and it's a

Very, very strange, odd situation that she finds herself in in the house.

Was that the spark for that book?

You would think, wouldn't you?

It was a fix at the end.

It was a fix because my physical reaction is telling me that this is really pivotal.

It is really pivotal, I suppose now, but it wasn't what...

And Jane is a woman in her 50s.

She's 55, yes.

She's lived a life.

She has.

She's still living a life.

Still looking for the old adventure, isn't she?

Yes, yes.