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Like Graham Greene, my faith is sometimes about if my faith will return. It's important to me.

Tatler magazine - 2006.

Religion, Author

With an ache in his heart and in his balls.

The Casual Vacancy - 27 September 2012

Until we reached Book Seven, views of what happens after death and so on ... would give away a lot of what was coming. So ... yes, my belief and my struggling with religious belief and so on I think is quite apparent in this book.

Today Show - 2007,

Religion, Author

That miraculously unguarded vagina.

The Casual Vacancy - 27 September 2012

He rolled off her, peeled off the condom and threw it aside, then zipped himself up, feeling jittery, looking around to check that they were definitely alone

The Casual Vacancy - 27 September 2012

I feel very drawn to religion, but at the same time I feel a lot of uncertainty. I live in a state of spiritual flux. I believe in the permanence of the soul.

El Pais - 2008.

Religion, Author

This Government has made some very substantial progress in tackling child poverty, but clearly, the need to maintain the government's focus, and to engage with the public on this most vital of issues, is absolutely essential.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-85041/Harry-author-attacks-lone-parent-poverty.html

The leathery skin of her upper cleavage radiaed little cracks that no longer vanished when decompressed.

The Casual Vacancy - 27 September 2012

Lone parents and their children are the poorest groups in our society. We are a wealthy nation, yet we have one of the worst records of child poverty in the industrialised world. It is a scandal.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-85041/Harry-author-attacks-lone-parent-poverty.html

I met Gordon Brown for the first time in 2000, at a reception for the National Council for One Parent Families that was held at 11 Downing Street. I doubt that anybody without personal experience of lone parents' stigmatisation by the previous administration can imagine the slight air of unreality that hung over that gathering. One fellow lone mother muttered to me as she took a drink from a passing tray, 'Can you believe we're here?'. I quite saw her point. When I became a lone parent in 1993, following the break-up of my first marriage, the then government's view of 'single mothers' was that they cost the taxpayer far too much money - in spite of the fact that they were poorer as a group than pensioners. Though only 3 percent of lone parents were under twenty years old, and 60 per cent of us had been married or cohabiting with a partner when we had our children, senior members of the Major administration stereotyped us as feckless teenagers who were 'married to the state' and whose children had been conceived as a means to secure a council flat. While these cowardly, rabble-rousing attacks did not help to re-elect those who made them, they left their mark none the less: those of us struggling to bring up children on our own felt demoralised and alienated. Gordon Brown's invitation to hold a reception for lone parents in 11 Downing Street therefore sent a powerful message: poverty was a problem to be solved, not a well-merited punishment for failure to conform to some government-sanctioned ideal of family life. Although, as you may have read somewhere, I no longer stand in personal need of financial help from the government, I watch every Budget with a view to how it would have improved my life between 1993 and 1997, when I lived in terror of the nappies running out before benefit day. Gordon Brown's Childcare Tax Credits and increases in maternity pay would have made a real difference to my family's life then, most importantly in enabling me to get back to work sooner. Poverty is a bad place to live on your own, but the worst place on earth if you have a child with you. We will never know how much talent and ability has been stifled in poverty over the centuries, but we can be sure that we will continue to live with ill health, crime and addiction until we succeed in eradicating it from as many children's lives as possible. The same year I met Gordon Brown, he made a speech in which he expressed perfectly why the eradication of child poverty is surely the most important political goal: 'We must never forget that poverty - above all the poverty of children - disfigures not just the lives of the poor, but all our society.

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