My debut, six months on

Six months ago The Lemon Tree Summer went out into the world, and I spent the day refreshing a sales page and eating an entire lemon drizzle cake.

Things nobody told me: that readers would write to me about their own grandmothers. That I would get a photograph of a lemon tree from Australia, and another from Lancashire, in a pot, in the rain. That writing the second book would be harder and also more fun.

Thank you for every review, every message, and every photo of a lemon. Keep them coming.