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QUICKFIRE Writer Lynda La Plante on murder a Mediterranean dream and being fired By You Magazine - August 19, 2018 Getty Images Guilty pleasure?
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I’m addicted to fudge and was once fired from a sweet shop I worked in for eating a whole tray of it. Where is home?
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A rambling old manor house in Surrey, where I’ve lived for 25 years. Career plan B?
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A fabric designer. Who would play you in a movie of your life? Bette Midler – she can sing, dance, act and is also very funny.
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Biggest bugbear? The unpleasant gunge that forms around taps.
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As a child you wanted to be… A prima ballerina. Secret to a happy relationship?
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I have no idea. I’ve had a number of what I believed were happy relationships that didn’t last. Your best quality?
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Fearlessness. And your worst?
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Not sending my ex-husband to jail for buying a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with my American Express card without telling me. He got the Harley in the divorce. Last meal on earth?
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A BLT with avocado and Byron’s cheese and bacon fries. Dream dinner-party guests?
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Oscar Wilde, Orson Welles, Marlon Brando, [film director] Abel Gance and Marlene Dietrich. Advice to teenage self?
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Always get a second opinion. Cat or dog? I have a cockapoo called Max.
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What do you see when you look in the mirror? Sadly, the same hairstyle I’ve had for most of my life. On a day off we’d find you… Occasionally rowing on the River Thames with my son Lorcan and eating a very large ice cream.
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Starstruck moment? Receiving my CBE from the Queen in 2008.
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What was your big break? Widows, the first series I wrote for television in 1983. Career highlight?
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The Baftas I won for Prime Suspect. Favourite tipple? Tanqueray No Ten gin and tonic, ice and lemon.
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Hangover cure? I don’t have one because I don’t drink to excess – I’m quite cheap to take out!
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Top of your bucket list? I’d love to charter a big yacht, with a full crew and a chef, and take my close friends sailing round the Mediterranean.
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One thing that would make your life better? A change in the law to make it impossible for murderers to be released on parole in cases where they refuse to reveal the whereabouts of the body.
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So many families never have closure. Philosophy?
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Biggest lesson you have learnt about money? Don’t spend it all – and remember you have to pay tax.
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Biggest lesson you have learnt about men? Not to bother too much about them.
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Last film that made you cry? Maudie with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, which is brilliant.
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Where would you time-travel to? To the days of Anne Bonny, the 18th-century female pirate who operated in the Caribbean.
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Most extravagant purchase? A navy blue Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible about 20 years ago. I couldn’t really afford it and ended up despising my extravagance.
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Best present you ever received? My divorce papers in 1996.
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Celebrity crush? I have only ever had one: Marlon Brando. Happiness is… My son, who is 15 going on 40.
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Lynda’s new novel, Murder Mile, featuring DS Jane Tennison, will be published on Thursday by Zaffre Publishing, price £18.99. To order a copy for £15.19 (A 20 per cent discount) until 2nd September, visit mailshop.co.uk/books or call 0844 571 0640. P&P is free on orders over £15.
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