Christine Webber
I was invited on to BBC Breakfast one morning back in about 2010 to talk about a new acronym that the Dept for Work and Pensions had devised. It was SWOFTY - which, I learned, stood for Single Women Over Fifty. The Dept was worried that this group were all out having a wonderful time and not saving for the future! This got me thinking about how different people in mid-life are today compared with a couple of generations ago. At the time I had just written a non-fiction book called 'Too Young to Get Old' (Piatkus) for mid-life women - all about how to age very differently from how our parents did. So I was thinking of writing more for this age group - and decided I'd sooner write a novel than more non-fiction. The Swofty concept kept bubbling into my mind, and that's how 'Who'd Have Thought It? came to be started.
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