#VoteLabour THREAD I’m often asked why I write. There are lots of reasons, & I could go into an analysis of the personal, emotional, psychological reasons, which might be interesting to me (for a bit) but probably not to anyone else. Far more important is how I *can* be a writer. I was born six weeks premature, by emergency c-section. NHS surgeons and midwives and cleaners saved my life. Without them, I wouldn’t be here. Then I went to nursery and to school, rather than to work.