Bontle Senne and the power of stories

Bontle Senne hopes to publish her third book for tweens in the nail-biting Shadow Chasers series before she turns thirty in October this year. Heather Robertson asked the talented author of Power of the Knife and Lake of Memories about the stories that shaped the storyteller.
What are your earliest memories of being read to and told stories?
My mother swears that she told me stories as…