Beginner's Pluck: Nydia Hetherington - "Don’t let yourself not write."

Nydia Hetherington

An imaginative child, Nydia was unhappy at school.

“I found it humiliating,” she says. “All I wanted to do was sit in my bedroom and listen to David Bowie. I found my diaries recently, and didn’t recognise the petulant person I was reading about.”