Today’s the official launch day of A Particular Man. Good luck out there in the world dear novel! When a book comes out it’s a bit like sending your child off on its travels for the first time – you put all your love and care into it for years and then it has to fend for itself. I celebrated this morning by standing in the woods with my new bird app and heard (but didn’t see) chiff-chaff, robin, wren, bullfinch, great tit, bluetit, dunnock – and on the way home, from a chimney, (and I did see this one) a goldfinch singing its little socks off. So a lovely start to the day.
