It’s been my life ambition since I was a teenager to write novels. For one reason or another (I like to think I was just too young!), it remained a pipe dream for many years until the desire to write burned inside me stronger and stronger until I had no choice but to sit down at a laptop; it was a choice between putting in the hard work or spontaneously combusting. And I quite like life, so I didn’t want really want to go down in flames. It took me a long while to work out ho