I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world. . . which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that.
Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.