A few questions about nice things...

Who do you most admire?

Too many people to name just one. For writing, Jeffery Eugenides. For style, Kate Moss. For making a difference, Camila Batmanghelidjh. And personally, my husband’s late-Greek grandmother whose story I’d love to write one day.

What are your favourite possessions?

It’s a bit of a cliché but my engagement ring – which was made for me by an amazing jeweller called Ben Day – and my Alice Temperley wedding dress. Oh, and all my photographs, especially the ones stashed in shoeboxes from the days before digital. I love those imperfect snapshots the most.

Tell us about your perfect day or weekend...

It’s got to start with a lie-in, right? Then eggs florentine for breakfast (definitely made by someone else), time to read a huge pile of magazines, a sunny stroll, maybe a trip to an amazing cheese shop, several glasses of rosé with my best friends in a newly-discovered and incredibly cool beer garden somewhere…And if I made it past the rosé stage, I’d probably end the day on the sofa at home in Bristol watching one of the huge back catalogue of films I haven’t managed to see since I had kids.

What makes you happiest?

Writing, friends and the comedy goldmine that is listening in on any conversation between my two pre-school daughters.

What would you like to do in the future?

I’ve been writing a novel for nearly a decade (typing that makes it seem even worse, somehow!) and I’ve decided enough is enough: I’d like the (very near) future to hold a completed manuscript. My husband has also signed me up for a half marathon but I am pretending that isn’t happening.