Gill Hornby interview: The novelist on queen bees, rock choirs and what keeps her up at night

I'm constantly compared to Robert Harris and Nick Hornby [her husband and brother respectively]. But what can you do? There's no way I could ever catch up with them at this point and we're not in competition with one another. I got some stick with my first book [The Hive, published in 2013), one review saying: "She even uses the same name, Hornby, and mentions that she's married to Robert Harris [in the blurb]." As if I was writing under my own name in order to get publicity! But you can't compare us as novelists: I'm upstairs writing about ladies who lunch and Robert's downstairs writing about Romans.