Jojo Moyes

almost a murder mystery.

The next time I was writing something else and they couldn't jacket me in a way that said, oh, you know, here's this thing.

Like cozy crime is massive at the moment.

You know what you're going to get.

It's a cozy crime.

It's a Richard Osman type thing.

None of my books fit that mold.

So I'd started to sense that my publishers, although they'd been incredibly supportive and tried really hard, they were losing interest in me.

And then I was helping look after my aunt who had multiple sclerosis.

I had another close friend who I'd trained with as a journalist who also had late stage multiple sclerosis.

And so I'd spent a lot of time

Considering the issues of dignity and hope when you have someone in your life who is in need of 24-hour care just to stay alive.

And then there was this court case that I read about, well actually I heard about it on the radio first.

A young man, and it wasn't a court case, sorry, it was a case of a young man called Daniel James who was a rugby player, a young rugby player.

who had ended up quadriplegic after an accident and after a few years had persuaded his parents to take him to Dignitas.

And I remember being really shocked by this story and the journalist in me wanted to read more about it.

So I was sort of reading all the information that I could because at first I felt quite judgmental of the parents and then I realised that

Your brain seeks certainty, but actually a lot of issues are far more grey than that.

And I suppose because of what was going on in my own family and my attempts to make my aunt happy when there was nothing for her to be happy about or look forward to anything.

And I knew that if she had known about Dignitas before...