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want to write about things that are part of my life outside broadcasting: illness, dementia, women’s relationships. ‘I look at women in their eighties and I think,
you have been through hell. You lived through the Second World War. The privations you have faced. So I knew I wanted to write about a very feisty woman who was a really private person but who was really intellectually stimulated.’ Wark was also keen to explore female
friendships. ‘I remember thinking when I was 18 or 19, that I had made all the really great women friends I was going to make in my life.’ Of course she was wrong, as every- body is about most things at that age. ‘As you go through life you meet women who become your friends from all different angles, you should never stop that, you should always be open to different friendships. Women have a way of bonding, they make connections