I’m delighted to be able to say that The Girl with Glass Feet has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2009. You can read all the shortlists for all the categories here and you can also listen to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row round-up here.
I thought you might be interested in this, the glass delusion. I didn’t know about this when I wrote the novel, but one of the proofreaders at Henry Holt (the US publishers of The Girl with Glass Feet) picked up on it. There I am thinking I’ve been reasonably original, when along comes King Charles …
I had the lovely experience last week of receiving some copies of Dziewczyna o szklanych stopach, which is the Polish edition of The Girl with Glass Feet. Seeing your work in another language is both marvellous and surreal. That David Copperfield thing holds true – that a book feels like a child leaving home for …
I had the amazing surprise on Saturday morning of coming upon a lovely review of The Girl with Glass Feet in The Guardian, so many thanks to them and to Catherine Taylor, the reviewer. I’ll post it on here in full next week, when I have the internet back up at home, but if you’d like to …
I wanted to write something on Friday about The Girl with Glass Feet finally being available, but opened up the blog form and instantly got blog block, which sounds more horrible than it is. I think it was difficult to say anything because it was quietly overwhelming. The good folk at Blackwell Broad Street in …