I was delighted to be asked to write some answers for the regular Guardian newspaper section, The Books of My Life. The questions come as standard, but my answers could be anything as long as I kept within the specified word count.

Want to know my earliest reading memory, or my favourite book growing up? Read on.

If you want to know which book changed me as a teenager, as well as the book I reread and the book I could never read on, then you can read the whole piece online.