My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.
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My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.
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I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.
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I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.
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I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.
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I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
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Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
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I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.
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I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
