Sally Hepworth

And sometime between then and now,

I just started to think to myself when, you know, I've written a couple of short stories recently and I've never written a short story, I mean, before I wrote the first one.

And I remember Amazon approaching me to write it and I said, yeah, okay, I'll do it.

And then I hung up and I immediately Googled how to write a short story because I thought, yeah, I can do it.

Well, of course I can do it.

And that snuck up on me because I didn't always feel that way, of course.

I hope so.

That's always been the interesting part of writing for me is there are books, I assume, that have been written about awful mothers-in-law and movies and monsters-in-law.

Jokes.

Jokes.

And so what was interesting to me about tackling it was to, you know, to reverse engineer or to look at the other side and what if...

you know, mothers-in-law aren't awful because they're not.

I mean, my mum is a mother-in-law and she's beautiful.

I adore her.

I also know that she irritates my sisters-in-law sometimes.

Yeah.

I mean, look, all of these experiences...

they become a part of you and so they leak out onto the page, I think.

Right.

But I will say that every, you know, my books in a way have followed the trajectory of things that I've gone through, motherhood, you know, even not being able to get pregnant and all of those things.