The charismatic author of Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? The Passion, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and, most recently, The Gap of Time talks about her work and the influences that have shaped her writing over the last three decades. She will also present her ambitious retelling of one of Shakespeare’s late plays, and her retelling moves from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crash, to a storm-ravaged city in the US called New Bohemia.