"When I was three and living in South Shields, my Auntie Shirley was having a party and borrowed some seven-inches from my mum. As they were going through the records playing them, this song came on, and it’s got an incredible opening refrain. It’s so dramatic. Even humming it to myself now years later, I get this exhilarating sensation remembering what it was like hearing it for the first time."

"It’s about Jen overhearing a conversation between her parents. Her mum had Alzheimer’s and she was asking her husband how they first met. He told this beautiful long story about how they started dating, what they were wearing, how they’d send each other love letters… and then five minutes later she said, “So how did we meet again?” It’s a bittersweet love song and is absolutely brutal on the heartstrings."

"The books that make up The Faraway Tree series are the books of my childhood, the most vivid early memories I have of stories and reading. My mum read them aloud to me and my sister, and the characters in them were as real to me as the next door neighbors. The actual faraway tree was a tall oak at the end of our garden. I truly believed that."