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 This is a book about a slightly useless part-time Harrods sales assistant who inadvertently brings down the government.
That's the elevator pitch anyway, but there's so much more to it: an upper-class housewife who discovers that she is an excellent burglar, a low-speed car chase, a fight to the death on a very small balcony, a shadowy company taking over the government, a dashing detective/loss-adjustor who gradually changes his attitudes to women, an epic battle at the Ritz in which a relative of the Duke of Portland is thrown over an occasional table, a shop selling edible puns, a personal crisis in a life-drawing class, a beautiful beige-haired philosophy student, a murderer with a really comfortable balaclava, a missing one-eared cat...
All are packed into a book which quite literally several people say they like. Even I like it.
But don't take our word for it, read the first six chapters for yourself.
It is called either Cooking A Fish or The Scapegoat Farm. Let me know which you prefer, and tell me whether you are one of the people who like it or part of a new group who don't like it.
I finished writing this in late-January 2010 and am currently looking for an agent. I have sent samples to three agents so far – watch this space for news.
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Newly finished book