Some of the authors who have inspired me:
Margaret Atwood
AS Byatt
Angela Carter
Wilkie Collins
Daphne Du Maurier
Patricia Duncker
Umberto Eco
Laura Esquivel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Michel Faber
Gillian Flynn
Josephine Hart
Patricia Highsmith
Kazuo Ishiguru
Malin James
PD James
Jonathan Kemp
Barbara Kingsolver
Adrea Kore
Tobsha Learner
Sergei Lukyanenko
Nancy Mitford
Remittance Girl
Jean Rhys
Ruth Rendell (also writing as Barbara Vine)
Muriel Spark
Patrick Suskind
Donna Tartt
Dylan Thomas
Rose Tremain
Evelyn Waugh
Sarah Waters
Fay Weldon
Mary Wesley
Jeannette Winterson
John Wyndham
Carlos Ruiz Zafon