A couple of weeks ago I finished the second draft of the novel that I’ve been working on since last summer. It finally reached the stage where I needed to give it to somebody else as I had completely lost any objectivity I might have once had. So, as usual, I passed it on to my long-suffering partner for a read and an initial edit. After a few days of reading a handful of pages each evening she reached a point where she couldn’t put it down. Obviously I was thrilled but wh