Jojo Moyes

Oh, so much.

I was so angry by Benny Hill.

Yeah.

But also the feeling that you couldn't fight back because it was just part of being a woman.

Yeah.

Now if someone touched me on a bus, I'd punch their faces in.

But then you just tolerated so much.

And I do think, while there's a lot of things that have got worse for women, I do think the fact that young women can name it and understand what it is and push back against it is a really important development.

terrible hacker to them but we did it a very different way I think if anything you know I've had the the breaks I've had to put on myself as to not be a helicopter parent because you know I think every generation decides they're going to do it differently to the one before don't they and I just knew that I wanted my kids to feel that I was there even if I was emotionally

Tuned into something else my work, but I was in the house.

They could come to be for stuff I didn't have much of a social life I didn't do very much for a long time while my kids were growing up other than work or be with them and So they had a very different childhood to me and they also had each other although I'm sure like my siblings They would sometimes have rather been on their own but I think

I hope they would say it was a really happy childhood because we just kind of bummed around in the house and garden and had chickens and all that kind of stuff.

Well, you know what it's like.

You always had a rural, semi-rural childhood too.

I think it's a really nice thing.

It's certainly better than running from the number 73 bus stop with your keys through your knuckles.

When you look back at little Jojo.

Yeah.

Do you know, I read a lovely thing recently, which was, I bet you turned into the adult that you needed as a child.

Right?