Book Title: SPIDER Character Name: Sophie How would you describe your family or your childhood? I’ve been blessed with lovely parents and had a wonderful childhood. They gave my brother and I everything. My father’s a dentist and my mum used to be an air hostess before they were married. I’ve always been a daddy’s girl. He lets me get away with anything. What was your greatest talent? I’ve always been an entertainer. As a child I used to play Happy Birthday on the recorder at parties when it was time to cut the cake. Sometimes I would even recite a poem, something by Ted Hughes or maybe a Shakespearean sonnet, but that got a bit tricky when my aunties would make me translate the whole thing into Punjabi so I stopped doing it. Significant other? I’m married to Tariq. He’s a lawyer… I’m sorry, it’s hard for me to talk about him… I was finally happy, really and truly happy when we got married. We had a wonderful life together, but it was cut short when he disappeared. Nobody knows what happened to him. Biggest challenge in relationships? Where do I begin? Untrustworthy partners with…

