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