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Any writer who thinks I’ve ruined their work in performance.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 October 2018 source ↗
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View all 209 →It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
My mum. I was horrendous growing up – I was always arguing with her.
Mum, because I never really knew how to cope with her alcoholism.
Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
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A cellist, inspired by my mum and dad’s friendship with Jacqueline du Pré, and seeing a documentary about her.
I would like the poem Cherish by Raymond Carver. It was read by my dad at my wedding, and is my absolute favourite.
A birthday present I hoped would mean a lot to the person. I had their family history researched and a book made.
I’ve been to two postmortems in real life, and spent the last 14 years talking about death at work – so, pretty close.
Dawn French, because I am sitting next to her and she says if I don’t say her, she will hurt me.
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