"I was born in London in 1984, the youngest of four; Gus, my eldest brother, is ten years older than me, then there's my sister Olivia, my brother Harry and then me - we come in gaps of roughly three years.

My father, Philip, grew up mainly in London and my mother, Clare, is from Leicestershire. My father was a writer and after they married they lived in a few different places but then came to Dorset on the advice of friends, to the house my mother still lives in outside Salway Ash.