'I found the thing I loved': Jane Fallon on leaving television to pursue her writing career

She went from broke student days with partner Ricky Gervais when they couldn’t pay the heating, to hanging out with Bowie. Suzanne Harrington talks success with author Jane Fallon

When Jane Fallon’s first novel became a best seller, she was with someone she didn’t know when she got the news.

“Penguin phoned me when my first book went into the Top Ten the week it came out, and I was in a car with someone I didn’t know very well,” she remembers. “I couldn’t tell this near stranger, because it would have been weird and boastful, and I didn’t know what to do with myself. I wanted to scream.”