It began as a love-letter to my grandparents; they were such a part of my life, so brave and idiosyncratic, so comically foreign yet proudly British, and I wanted to memorialise them. At the same time, I wanted to write about very English preoccupations - class, money, snobbery.
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I'm watching a lot of early Dallas and The West Wing DVDs at the moment, because there is hardly anything on television, though I am becoming addicted to The Apprentice. It's just like early Big Brother, which I loved.
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