‘They should make a film about our lives,’ I would often say to my children when they were younger. ‘The problem is, it’s so unimaginable that I doubt anyone would want to do it.’
‘But if they did,’ I would add, optimistically, ‘I’d want Sharon Horgan to play me.’ At which point, the conversation would veer off at a hilarious tangent as we discussed who would play each member of our family.
We welcomed Daisy into our lives on 22 December 2004. She was born prematurely and spent the first eight weeks of her life in the hospital’s neonatal unit. At the time, I was working as a marketing director and our other children were aged seven, five and two – now, we had
