Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who has just won the Costa Biography Award | 'Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one ...

'Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the afternoon. I didn't want to write a book unless I had something new to say - and it was good to live a little in between.'