There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.
He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.
Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.
My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.