The Diary of a Debut | 11th April, 2011

We launched the book during London Book Fair...

Hopes and Doubts — The Diary of a Debut

My first book, Before I Go to Sleep, first came out in April 2011. I’d completely forgotten that in the January of that year I started keeping a journal to chronicle things as they happened.

My entries were sporadic, and some intensely personal. I’ve tried to edit it as little as possible, however.

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11th April 2011 - The International Launch Party!

The day of my official international launch. Who would have thought, way back, that we would end up here? Me least of anyone. Yet here we are.

But first things first. I spent some of the morning doing a phone interview with a journalist from the Brisbane Courier. That was nice - an hour spent talking about myself and my work with a woman who clearly loves the book. N and I then went to lunch in Spitalfields and I bought a huge box of Montezuma chocolates to go some way towards repaying the Conville and Walsh team for all their hard work in organising my party. Back home to get ready, then we got a taxi to the offices.

Copies of the book dotted the office and they had the book trailer playing on a loop on all the computers.

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