It is long past time for all the hidden women to be brought from the shadows into the light of their own stories.

I don’t approach the basic act of storytelling differently when I’m writing about kissing than when I’m writing about swordfights, and I think it would be rather odd if I did.

Still, a few weeks ago someone asked me what advice I would give my pre- publication self and I realised that I wouldn’t do very much differently.