If you’re ‘a name’ - a politician, a sports person, an actor or media personality - you might do so in order to entertain, set the record straight, earn money. And you do so because you know people will be interested. But what about everyday folk with their ‘normal’ lives - though every life is extraordinary!

Do we start a memoir when we feel our time coming to an end, when we realise we aren’t immortal after all? Or do we do so to prove - to ourselves most of all - that we were actually here in the first place? What do you think?