Jojo Moyes

So I was often doing back-to-back.

And I remember...

doing a really crazy tour.

I think it was about three and a half weeks nonstop.

And I ended up on the west coast of America.

It was Denver.

And I flew out of Denver and there was something like whatever flight it was and I had to appear in the Frankfurt Book Fair the next day.

That was when I stopped.

And I'd said, I'm not sure about this because the time change and I wasn't sleeping as well.

I've always been an intermittent insomniac.

And at that point, I was lucky to get four hours a night and I didn't sleep very well on planes.

So I was like, I don't know how this is going to work because...

I'm at the end of this tour all the way across America and you're often zigzagging every day.

You're flying every day.

It's not glamorous.

I mean, it sounds glamorous, but it's really not glamorous.

So I'd gone from Denver at the end of, I think, three weeks and then flown to Frankfurt.

And there was a big publishing lunch for me with lots of my international publishers.

And I remember I didn't even know where I was at this point.

And then sitting at this lunch and someone told a joke and I started to laugh and then it became tears and I couldn't stop crying.