I've always loved Sarah Waters' books - my favourite so far is still Affinity - I found it completely mesmerising. In 2002, Francesca Rhydderch at the New Welsh Review asked me to write a profile of Sarah. We met in the cafe of the National Theatre on the South Bank, just as Fingersmith was being filmed for the BBC.
Read the New Welsh Review interview with Sarah Waters
If you're interested in the craft of writing - the doing of it - you might want to read the full text of the interview.
Read the full interview with Sarah Waters