Actually, it’s not such a bad idea. He always puts them up before the weather has turned really cold. Wise man. Then we have a grand switch-on nearer the time. He usually gets a famous romantic novelist to do it! (His words not mine)
But – this is what I really wanted to tell you – he came down with a box labelled:
MANUSCRIPT OF FIRST BOOK EVER WRITTEN
It’s 35 years old and still here after three house moves. It is the one rejected by HM&B (and Robert Hale) and the box is now sitting in my study looking at me, daring me to open it – and to actually read it!
I will, one day, I promise. And I’ll let you know what I think of it.
Meantime back to the current WIP which is proving very non-co-operative.
