How did the novelist adapt her bestseller The Taxidermist's Daughter for the stage? By stripping out the gore, ratcheting up the revenge " and asking her actor son for tips 'I've very much enjoyed turning 60," says Kate Mosse, tipping several sachets of sugar into a cup of takeaway coffee. It's 9am, and the bestselling novelist and founder of the Women's prize for fiction has travelled up to London from her home on t…