Maggie O’Farrell

Thank you very much.

It's lovely to be here.

I'm fine.

My jet lag, I think, has abated.

The whole thing was very strange and very surreal.

It's been a bit of a wild ride, but I'm happy to be back in the bookshop.

Yeah.

It wasn't terrifying.

I mean, it was just very, very strange.

It was very strange to be at the Oscars and thinking, oh, look, just in the row in front of me there's Spike Lee, and behind me, oh, Steven Spielberg, just sitting behind me.

Yeah, very, very strange.

I mean, it's not...

It's not really my world, you know, not at all.

I'm very happy to be in the book's world, but it's certainly very interesting to dip my toe in it briefly.

I don't know.

I mean, it was such a strange thing to happen, you know, up until I was actually standing on set and I could hear Chloe Zhao shouting action.

It was only then that I thought, OK, I think actually this is going to happen.

Because up until that point I kept thinking, it's so likely that it won't happen, the film won't happen.

But I was only on that day really when I was on set where I thought, okay, I think this is happening now.

So I think all families have their myths.