I was a very academic teenager. I’d loved books since I was quite small. I had a real passion for learning but it got me into trouble. I was really badly bullied at junior school because I liked books and I wore glasses. I was always in the corner with my nose buried in a book. But that bullying when I was in primary school didn’t put me off, it actually made me even more determined. When I was 11, I knew I wanted to be a medical doctor. So by 16 I was on that course of learning. It was a kind of lifeline for me because I had a really deep sense of insecurity as well, anxieties about what the future held and where my path would lie.
I was brought up in an intensely religious family. That might be why boyfriends were not welcome in my house. I
