Jojo Moyes

And she was so angry and I can completely understand it.

And so we talked for a while and we came out on good terms with each other.

Jojo, can I ask you something?

Well, I had to stop in the end because it became very overwhelming.

And I'm quite a kind of porous person, so I would take on a lot of...

their things.

I'm a lot older now and I've had a lot of therapy, so I understand about boundaries, but I didn't have any.

I just felt I've had all this luck.

And I remember hearing about JK Rowling once talking about the guilt she felt when she was successful.

And I thought, how ridiculous, just enjoy it.

And then I got it because I'd written this book that was very specifically about

you know, terrible things happening to people.

And suddenly people were asking me to share their experiences and wanting to tell me and being incredibly vulnerable.

And so I had to answer them.

It was like the least I could do.

And also finally I had some readers.

That was the other thing I wanted to thank them and respond and make them feel like they hadn't wasted their time.

But then it becomes too much.

And then some of the people want to answer you again and again.

And then I'd taken on a friend, Jackie, as an assistant by then because I couldn't cope with the volume of stuff.