Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

I don't punish myself. Life's too short.

Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.