The Housekeeper, my second novel, will be published on February 28,  and if you buy it and if you like it, you might want to suggest it to your book club. Just a thought!

I flicked through a book last night. Actually, it was my book, The Housekeeper, which will be published in February. 

2016 is nearing its end, and about time. We need a rest. As a friend noted not so long ago, news cycles became five-minute affairs. It was hard to finish a cup of coffee without a monumental something or other beginning or ending.

Winter is the most creative season. Really. Summer is too hot. Spring is too giddy. And autumn is, well, too autumnal.

But the minute the clocks change, I start thinking.

I finally did it. On my last morning in the house where we’d lived for more than 15 years, I woke early and listened to the birdsong outside my window. Listen carefully, I told myself.