Remember that book I promised to have finished in six weeks? After working as a news reporter for 20 odd years (and some of them were very odd) I'm no stranger to deadlines. But this was the first fiction deadline I'd ever had. And I'll let you in on a secret. I was a little bit terrified. So terrified that I took the laptop on holiday to France and wrote while everyone else was lounging by the pool. Once we were home I squirreled myself away in what I optimistically call my