Jojo Moyes

Oh, gosh, that's an interesting question.

I'm not sure if there were any immediate changes, but I think I had to start acknowledging the parts of my character that had come from that.

And honestly, I think there were a lot of positives.

I am a very...

practical person and very capable.

The downside is I am hyper independent.

I find it very hard, almost physically impossible to ask for help.

Yeah.

Because also it just feels sort of horribly self-indulgent.

Again, if you're a girl of the 80s, you just muscle on, get on with it.

And it was girl power before girl power, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

It's cosmopolitan.

You can do anything.

You just have to make sure you're skinny enough, work hard enough, you know, know all the sex tips and just get on with it.

That was the ethos.

And I half of me, you know, when my daughter's generation is taking their mental health days or, you know, complaining about some kind of what I would have considered in my age, almost non-existent sexual harassment.

Half of me wants to applaud them because I'm like, oh, you guys are really taking care of yourselves.

And then I have to fight this slightly regressive part of me just going, oh, come on, just get on with it.