We don’t need women to keep putting themselves down...

feminist knot we need to untie.

“I’m happy to be the first to stand up and say: ‘Yes, I’ve had it’. Let’s just be honest – life’s too short.”

Caitlin’s spent enough time on Twitter to know what can happen when celebs step out of line, and she’s no friend of ‘cancel culture’.

She blames the medium as much as the message: “Only 14% of the population is on Twitter, and it’s a place people go to argue.

“I feel sorry for feminists of both generations, who think you can sort things out on Twitter.”

Has she ever been Twitter mobbed?

“Oh yes,” she says casually, “and the first couple of times, it feels like the end of your life. To be suddenly accused of being evil can make you incredibly paranoid and upset, but it also makes you go away and think.

“As with everything, you can walk around saying, ‘I smell’, or you can scrape the poo off and use it to grow flowers.”

Caitlin does not shy away from the tough stuff, but she’d rather laugh than grumble, and both book and interview are suffused with optimism.

“The world is f ***** at the moment, but everything is cyclical, and after destruction comes construction.

“Young people have their heads screwed on, and there are heroes out there whose names we’ll know in five years time.”

She does not share the politics or gender politics of certain world leaders, but finds comfort in the big, broad view.

“Whenever I have to cheer up my children, I tell them, ‘Girls, you’re going to live through an era where you see the headline, ‘Donald Trump is dead’.”

Having mastered middle age, Caitlin knows life is more journey than destination, and More Than A Woman may end up the middle of a trilogy: “Hopefully I get a chance to check in again in another 10 years.”

Surely few publishers would refuse, and she’s refreshingly uninterested in performative modesty.

“We don’t need women to keep putting themselves down,” she says.

“I think I am quite wise, quite happy, and have some things to say.”

And she’s past caring: “You don’t give a f*** by the time you’re 45, and I wish I could give that in a pill to younger women.

“If young women gave as few f **** as older women, we’d take over the world in 20 minutes flat.”