Why I never lose the plot

Sue Leonard talks to novelist Penny Vincenzi about creating a complex, 751-page bestseller.

DURING my interview with Penny Vincenzi, she received a text message. Reading it, she started jumping up and down. She’d made the number one bestseller spot in England, for the second week in a row.

“It’s like having an Oscar,” she says, going pink with excitement. “No one can take it away from you. So, the next week you are not number one? It doesn’t matter. You have been judged and found not wanting.”