So it’s publication day tomorrow apparently and the phone’s been ringing off the hook with calls from the publisher, agents, Hollywood and …oh, OK. My agent did ring; the 5-year-old answered and a fair bit of confusion followed as he thought she was ringing to say Happy Birthday. Because actually he’s 6 today and not 5 anymore. An auspicious week in my household, you see.

Anyway, am very excited about NEVER TELL hitting the shelves; it’ll be triply exciting if readers like it. It’s definitely the most ambitious of my books and I have a huge soft spot for Rose Miller, the journalist struggling to reconcile her addiction to adrenalin-filled news gathering with raising her young family. It’s also set in early ’90s Oxford where Rose got involved with the decadent Society X – pretty topical at the moment with the Election looming, Laura Wade’s play POSH about the Bullingdon drinking club -also mentioned in NEVER TELL , and boasting members such as Cameron and Boris Johnson. A jolly good excuse to raise a (large) glass myself tomorrow, I think!