Ali Sparkes

"...A really good book is one that never leaves me once I’ve read it; a story and characters and scenes which haunt me forever after..."

"...I found the stories that I loved best were about ordinary people, to whom something extraordinary had happened..."

"...The best thing is vanishing into other worlds, particularly when the world is in crisis!..."

"...If I’m not occasionally laughing out loud, welling up, or getting an increased heart rate while I’m writing, I’m not doing it right..."

"...Write anything at all – even a shopping list – when you’re daunted by a blank screen. Just to get your brain and fingers limbered up..."