"Did I ever tell you about the time I got fired? No? Well… at the time it broke my heart and I was only 17 years old. I’d recently given up on my A-levels because of Chaucer (and that’s a whole other story), but that’s only half the truth. I think I gave up on them because I had an older boyfriend, 24, and he was working and earning money and I wanted to feel more grown-up and less schoolgirl." Read more on the blog.