My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

More Quotes by Arabella Weir

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.