clareswatman and I have been best friends since our first day of uni in 1993. She wrote ‘zzzzzzz’ in a very dull French lecture and it made two very different young women inseparable from then on. Today is the release date of her 9th book. And I’m pretty sure she will do her usual non-announcement. She’s an amazing writer but seriously pants about blowing her own trumpet. So, I’ll do it for her. I’m beyond proud.