![]() ![]() That was one of the lessons I learnt from them – that you gave back. They worked hard but devoted much of their free time to voluntary work. My father, Richard, was a solicitor my mother, Barbara, was a part-time teacher in business studies and economics. I grew up, the eldest of three sisters, in Fishbourne, outside Chichester. The idea of conspicuous consumption or keeping up with the Joneses wasn’t how they saw the world. My parents were from that wartime generation who appreciated what they had. There was never a sense that we were watching the pennies, but equally never a sense of there being money to waste. I can’t remember money being a topic of conversation when I was growing up. How did your background influence your work ethic and attitude towards money? She lives near Chichester, West Sussex, with her husband Greg, with whom she has two children, and her mother-in-law, Rosie. ![]() She is also the founder director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was awarded an OBE in 2013. ![]() She has written nine novels and short story collections, four non-fiction titles and three plays, and has sold more than eight million books worldwide. Writer Kate Mosse, 59, is best known for her Languedoc trilogy, the first novel of which, Labyrinth, topped the bestseller lists for six months in 2006. ![]()
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