Karly Drake asked Jacqueline Winspear:

Hi there and thank you for taking time to do this! I hope someday to have the pleasure of meeting you and hearing you speak. My question is about you! What kind of music do you like to listen to? Do you play an instrument? Do you listen to music while you write? Warmest regards!! Huge Maisie fan!!!!!

Jacqueline Winspear Hi Karly. I never listen to music while I work. I am useless with instruments, which is OK as my husband is a musician and song-writer,and I've lost count of the number of guitars he has stashed in his work room, so one in the family is quite enough. I love smooth jazz, the blues, and rock and roll - I'm a big Stones fan, adored Amy Winehouse and I could play Joshua Tree until the speakers give out. And I also love listening to vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Diana Krall - and I love classical composers, from Beethoven to Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Thomas Tallis. The only thing I don't like is country music - but then there's Alison Krauss, who's wonderful, and Emmy Lou Harris (would love her hair), so maybe I do ...

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