I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father but my upbringing has been very destructive.

Oddly I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet I never had a problem with my father.

But mostly it's a book about my relationship with my father.

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful and if you give the kid the right information it can be very useful to the family.

I've just finished my next collection Possible Side Effects and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16 and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old and I had to hide the relationship.

Any son of a dictator I'm sure has major issues with their relationship with their father.