In conversation with psychiatrist Anthony Clare, ex-fashion editor and novelist Molly Parkin reveals some of the lessons she has learnt after a life marked by artistic, sexual and alcoholic excesses. After rebelling against a puritanical upbringing, her rapacious lifestyle reached its lowest point one morning in a gutter in London. Now a pensioner of 64, in love and at peace, how does she feel she has changed? (1996)