The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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I’m a classic remoaner.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 October 2025 source ↗
I was brought up Catholic, to believe that marriage is for life. And we failed.
That all the cliches about people in the music industry are true.
That so far none of my children has told me they're gay.
How little money really changes things. It buys doctors but not health, clothes but not taste, makeup but not beauty. When I was young and didn’t have anything, I imagined money had more power.
Three mature palm trees. We restored a property in Italy that had been derelict and I needed to make it look established as quickly as I could.
I used to give a fantastic talk about Frankenstein and Dracula, but I’ve never been able to finish either book.
Aggression. Anger. Rudeness. Intolerance. Lack of understanding. Pretty much your average day on X.
I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
All the kids I didn’t reply to who’ve written lovely letters about my books.
Middle-class wanker.
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