I’ve been ignoring The Real World (my book, I mean, not the actual real world) since October, in order to get a bit of distance. Last week I printed the manuscript out and (when I wasn’t standing in the rain for three hours waiting for a rail replacement bus) read it through and scribbled on it.
It isn’t bad at all. It isn’t done, but what’s there is OK. If all goes to plan, it will come out in September.
In the meantime, I wrote a blurb for it, and here it is:
Colette is trying to finish her PhD and trying not to think about what happens next. Her girlfriend wants to get married – but she also wants to become a vicar, and she can’t do both. Her ex-girlfriend never wanted to get married, but apparently she does now. Her supervisor is more interested in his TV career than in what Colette’s up to, and, of her two best friends, one’s two hundred miles away, and the other one’s dead.
Welcome to…
The Real World.
Kathleen Jowitt 
What a delicious tease your blurb is. Looking forward to its publication.
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V cool title! Looking forward to book!
Been meaning to say, recently lent Speak Its Name to a friend who I thought would like it. She did indeed enthuse, and was delighted to hear that a sequel is brewing!
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