Jojo Moyes

And so we set up an arrangement where...

I would answer the first one and then she would answer subsequent emails.

But then people would get unhappy with that because they felt that somehow I was blocking myself off from them.

And then I realized that I got to a point where I couldn't make anybody happy because I couldn't answer all the emails.

And so we had to take the contact button off.

So the thing about achieving some success after a long period of not being very successful is that you find it very hard to say no.

I mean, I don't know if you've experienced this in your life, but you're very conscious that fortunes can rise and fall.

And so you feel like I've got to milk every opportunity as it comes.

And I wrote the screenplay for the film of me before you, and it was a big commercial success.

So I suddenly got so many offers of work in Hollywood.

So my kids were all school age.

So I was getting up and doing whatever they needed in the morning.

Then I would be writing books in the day.

And then in the evening, I would be on LA time working on scripts.

So never free.

Never.

And in fact, I was thinking about one year, I think it was 2017, where I had one week's holiday and we all got food poisoning.

Just being so gutted.

It was in October.

We were in Lisbon and we'd been to a fish restaurant two days into our holiday.