Shane Ross

You go and do what you have to do, and no problem about that whatsoever.

We'll resume when you're ready.

I had kind of one of my thoughts immediately was, oh, blast, the book's gone, you know.

And that's going to mean the contract isn't fulfilled or broken by me.

But they were absolutely delightful about it.

They just said...

We're ready to go ahead.

We might adjust the book a bit when you're ready to go ahead again.

And it was difficult because I started writing about four months after I got the diagnosis again.

And you have these kind of periods then when you can't do anything much.

So you kind of hold it off again and then you start again, you start again.

So we adjusted the book a bit.

to increase the amount of historical context.

In other words, it's not a book just about Ryan Turbury and the scandals there or the related scandals.

It goes right back to 1961 to put them in context.

And in that way, it was actually very useful because you can see the origins of the problems of today in 1961.

I think the answer to that is not because of my experiences.

No, I wasn't.

But my initial reaction was, this cannot be a kind of total villain of the piece that she was made out to be in the Euractus hearings and by her own actions as well.

She didn't help herself.