Jojo Moyes

The world will have its way with you.

That's really kind of you.

Thank you.

Yes, it's quite funny because.

you always assume that your own parents are the norm and it was only when I kind of got quite a bit older that I thought no not everybody's parents had a tortoise walking around the house and free roaming free roaming and sort of a yeah that they someone described them as hippies with a work ethic and I think my dad would bristle slightly at the idea of him being a hippie but if I

look at the pictures?

They're not far off.

They were very hardworking though, both of them.

So there was never any kind of lying around getting stoned.

It wasn't that kind of a hippie.

I think they were very arts-minded.

They were a bit alternative.

But my abiding childhood memory is of them working.

I was either out with my dad in a van or I was sitting under my mum's desk while she painted.

She was an illustrator and he set up a company that moved works of art.

So that's my childhood memories is working.

Yeah.

I mean, it was kind of an extraordinary childhood when I look back, because my dad set up this company called MoMart, which grew.

And it was basically lots of warehouses that were full of works of art.

Everything from kind of priceless, I don't know, David Hockney's or Van Gogh's, to Paul McCartney storing the Beatles'