Hello Rosie, thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell us a little bit about your route to publication? Had you always wanted to write a novel?

I think every journalist longs to write a novel, not least because our work is fish and chip paper the next day! I signed up for a Fiction Writing course with the University of East Anglia which I did every Tuesday night in London for six months, and The Square came out of that.

Can you tell us a little about your book, The Square and how the idea originated?

I wanted to write a satirical novel based in the present day and the garden square where I live in London seemed to be a very fertile starting point! I also wanted to make it a bit racy and fun.

What’s your favourite word?

Babies.

If you were to enter a talent show, what would you perform?

I would sing Any Dream Can Do from Joseph.

What song best describes you?

You Never Feel Happy, Until You Try, by c2c.

If you were only allowed to own three books for the rest of your life, which three would you pick?

A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Middlemarch, by George Eliot.

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