What is Dissociative Identity Disorder, and why did I write about it?

One of the first writing tips most people hear is ‘write what you know’. But I’ve never been very good at sticking to that.

Perhaps it’s my appetite for learning, for stretching to place myself in the shoes of someone different to me. It’s what I did in ,The Silent Chapter, after all. I’ve never lost someone close to suicide, or lost a child, or indeed been married. I’m not even straight, like almost all the characters are. But with a hell of a lot of research from endless sources, I think I go...