I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.

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• Laurie Graham:

  My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narra

• Laurie Graham:

  My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my America

• Laurie Graham:

  I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madri

• Laurie Graham:

  I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are ch

• Laurie Graham:

  Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've

• Laurie Graham:

  I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary Americ

• Laurie Graham:

  I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: Th

• Laurie Graham:

  Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and diffi

• Laurie Graham:

  Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can k

• Laurie Graham:

  I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.