"The trailer brought to mind a RuPaul quote: 'With all the darkness that’s going on in the world, you can look at the darkness — don’t stare. It will make you crazy. It will make you cross-eyed. It will make you what it is. The solution is to create magic, dance, sing, love, create environments where you can find joy because you can create joy.'"

"We discovered this when all of our random and ad-hoc interactions disappeared during lockdown."

"It seems incredible to me now, as a grown woman who also has children, that I have managed to escape camping for so long."

Because I published a debut novel when I was over 40, I am often asked about being a ‘late starter’ or finding success ‘late in life'

"...while Carrie was undoubtedly the dramatic centre of SATC, Samantha remains the iconic, sex-positive, and determinedly independent woman that the show promoted itself as being about..."

"If internet trolls wrote to newspaper letters pages, maybe one letter from the masses of comments would be published. But online, we get to see each and every spurious, half-formed opinion."

"Willoughby was aware of the power of clothes as she draped herself in white, the colour of innocence, the colour of truth-telling, the colour of surrender, the colour of peace."

"It’s a little embarrassing learning something new at an age when you feel you should really have mastered certain life skills."

"Losing is part of playing. It’s the bet we take with anything in life, not just sports. Often we have to go through loss to get to winning; through failure to get to success."

"If we’re connected, we look after each other. If we’re not, we become divided, polarised, and alienated."