Catriona Olding

A year or so ago, the actor and his wife bought a house half an hour away

Each night at ten, the great limestone cliff, into which my little house was built, is floodlit for a couple of hours

The book launch passed in a blur. I hardly spoke to anyone

A few years ago on the way home I stopped for a young couple

He spent so much time in bed reading that some weeks he had nothing to write about