I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
