Kate Long interview
The Independent has an interview with Kate Long - author of The Bad Mother’s Handbook.
The novelist’s own passions – aside from the writing – include collecting vintage dolls’ houses, the plight of the water vole and an increasing addiction to online writing communities. Her husband, Simon, wins prizes for floral displays (he’s built a Spitfire from bedding plants) and her two young sons, Ben and Toby, are usually to be found staring down the wrong end of a microscope. Within hours of my arrival we’re standing on a bridge in Tesco’s car park scanning a scrotty stretch of river for signs of riparian wildlife.
Kate Long lives in Whitchurch, Shropshire, where I took my driving test. Back then Whitchurch was famous among learner drivers for having just a single set of traffic lights.
