“All novels have their seeds somewhere, and What I Did To Deserve You was planted four years ago when our much-adored family dog Elvi went out to the garden on a quiet, cold night and never came back. The lengths we went to searching for her were really quite mad. This isn’t our story, but it was while walking the dark streets of a strange country town, wondering what we’d done, that the roots of this book began to travel.
 
“More fuel: I started hosting a podcast about midlife - a rich seam that exposed all the ways we’re told we’re doing it wrong. Then there was our treechange and yes, my desire to write something like a love story. A book that didn’t shy away from the messiness of being properly grown-up, of realising that so much hasn’t worked out the way you thought it might, and all the possibilities still to come. And of realising, too, that love and sex and treachery and longing aren’t quite done with you yet.
 
“I absolutely can’t wait for you to read it.”