WHATBOOK..?

. . . are you reading now?

RUBY WAX’S How To Be Human, which is about happiness and good mental health. It’s powerful and I laughed and learnt a lot!

. . . would you take to a desert island?

LITTLE Women by Louisa May Alcott. The March sisters would keep me in good company. Or Shakespeare’s sonnets.

. . . first gave you the reading bug?

THE Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. My childhood copy is still at my mum’s and I read it often when I visit. Every now and then, I think about bringing it home with me, but I feel its place is really in my old bedroom.

. . . left you cold?

I HAVE struggled to get past the first few chapters of War And Peace. I try every couple of years — this has reminded me to try again! Eat Happy by Melissa Hemsley is published by Ebury Press at £20