This much I know: Maggie O’Farrell

I wouldn’t say I always knew I’d be a writer, I have simply always written.

At first, I wrote in secret. To begin with, I thought I wanted to be a poet.

Growing up, I was a bookish and shy child and I had a terrible stammer. I think I was probably quite difficult. I was given to tantrums, to peaks and troughs of emotion. My mum says I was a nightmare.