I was eating a yoghurt yesterday -pondering a trip to ‘Ha’vey Normans’ to purchase a vacuum cleaner-when the phone bleeped into life.

‘Hallo?’ I didn’t say, for my husband answered it.

But it was for me.

‘That’s a nice piece about the book in the paper.’ Margaret Daly, head honcho of all things PR said to me.

‘Piece? Paper? Book?’ Oh I’m literally on fire in the mornings. On fire.

But yes, piece, paper and book. Someone in print media finally reviewed Undertow, ...