Anna Chancellor

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.