Here, for a change – after attending and hosting so many iftars – I am enjoying a quiet day at home, just writing and spending time with my wonderful characters. Why are they wonderful? Because I adore them – after all, I gave birth to them. However, they are all languishing because of their creator’s unintentional neglect!

By the way, apart from human, marital relationships, and love ( between the opposite sexes and also between sisters), I have three new prominent themes in my new novel set in Morocco; disability, hatred and infertility.

Getting back into writing and trying to structure the noveI is such hard work at times, but I love