Jojo Moyes

And I was a bit nervous and I was like, I'm going to keep one part of my brain on.

Yeah, I can lock that bit away.

Yeah, you better not mess around with me.

And then it was one of the most weirdly moving things that has ever happened to me because this guy took me into my childhood and...

Oh, this is going to sound a bit weird, but because I was afraid from when we'd been broken into,

We had an old church pew in our front hall and I used to get home from school and I would sit on the pew until my parents came home because I was afraid to go upstairs because if people broke in, I wouldn't have a way out.

It was one of those tall, thin Victorian houses.

And this hypnotist somehow, I'd forgotten this, and he got me to sit next to my, I don't know, 12-year-old self on this bench

And I was really conscious that I was hypnotized on one level, but also I wasn't.

I was also aware of the two sides of myself.

It was a really strange experience.

And then he said, what would you do with that girl?

Because I was a mother by the time I had this hypnosis.

And I said, oh, I want to take her into the kitchen and give her some toast because I know.

And then I cried buckets.

And it really hit me then, like, oh, you were just quite anxious quite a lot of the time, with good reason as well.

It wasn't, you know, it wasn't a great place to grow up, to be honest.

And so that's what I did.

I took my 12-year-old self to the kitchen and made us some toast and peanut butter and then cried buckets.

So when you came out of your hypnotism... Yeah.