Twinkle Khanna on Mrs. Funnybones Origin

“I remember when I was writing 'Pyjamas Are Forgiving', I was in the midst of the 11th draft and my daughter came to me and said, 'It's been a week and we haven't opened my birthday presents.' And it really hit me that I’d been kind of blindsided and focused in different ways. But now as I've aged, I've found different ways of managing my time. So, I tell my family that my mornings are precious, because that's when my brain works, that's when I can write. I get up very early, it could be 6-6:30. If it's 6, I immediately get a cup of coffee, I sit down, and I start writing.”

“It was during the tour of my last book, 'Welcome to Paradise', when I realised that the first book 'Mrs Funnybones' meant so much to so many people. They kept talking about it, they kept telling me about how it was their comfort food... And I felt that I may take it a bit for granted, because I've been doing the 'Funnybones' columns for so many years, but it really connects with people. I don't know why it connects, but it means something to them. And I felt it was the right time to do a sequel.”