My mother sent me and my sisters to Italy every year for language school, so I spent a lot of my teenage years in Florence and Rome. After university I went to Harvard for a year, dropped out, and then went to Paris, where I ended up staying 10 years. It's different from being American: If you're British, you're expected to live at the far corners.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

I grew up in the small town of Haywards Heath, south of London.

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