You Feel You Can Pretend

Hackney Gets A Bit Of A Bad Rap, But It's The Only Place I've Ever Lived That Felt Like A Community. I Know My Neighbours.

I Think That There's An Idea In 2016 That If A Woman Doesn't Have It All Then She's Lacking In Some Way, And I Think That 'having It All' Is The Kid, The Relationship And The Career, And That Seems Horribly Skewed. I Get Genuinely Excited When I Meet Women - Or Men - Who Don't Want To Have Children. It's Refreshing And Unusual And Means They're Not Swayed By What Society Has Told Them, They're Just Listening To Their Own Basic Instincts. I Love Meeting People Who Are Fulfilled By Other Things. I Think, 'lucky Old You' When I Meet Someone Single.

I Started Writing Sketches With Dennis Kelly, Who I Ended Up Writing 'pulling' With. We Entered A Bbc Competition And Did Quite Well, Then Started Writing Bits For Other People's Shows. You Wheedle Your Way In, Write Pilots And Eventually You End Up Writing A Sitcom.

I Never Felt Like I Had To Rebel Against My Convent Upbringing, Because It Was Comparatively Regular.

Stresses In A Marriage And In Family Life, Sometimes They're Prompted By Whatever Is Going On In The Wider World As Well As What's Going On Behind Your Door.