Marnie

Name: Marnie Eleanor Wade, (formerly Barthélemy); birth name: Saoirse Patricia Kavanaugh

Age: 49

Nationality: British/Irish

Place of residence: Bristol

Marital status: Divorced

Occupation: Formerly industry fodder. Now freelance translator; owner/founder of Bacchus & Minerva

Favourite food: Cajun; Indian. Anything spicy.

Desert Island Disc & book: The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs. Our Mutual Friend (or anything else by Dickens).

Favourite Place: The Wye Valley in Wales.

Worst fear: Outliving my daughter.

Most hated list: Religious zealotry, e-scooters, slimline tonic water, unpunctuality, spiders.

Epitaph: “Ate, drank, made merry. Loved and was loved.”