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It is only the next day, as I travel back to London under the dim blue light in the train, that I begin to unravel the few moments of that gentle kiss. | |
PURE, FLAWLESS HAPPINESS | |
The AuthorTo clinch a publishing deal has never been easy. In these days of 3 for 2 offers, supermarket discounts, and celebrity dominance, it's tougher still - but I believe there is still room for someone determined to make their own luck. I work as a postman to support my writing. Not that I can compete with Anthony Trollope, who knocked out 47 novels while running the GPO. I console myself that he probably didn't have to cope with quite as many dogs. Pure, Flawless Happiness is the first of three planned novels: perhaps not so much a trilogy as a loosely-connected period sequence. I love the research almost as much as the writing. I am old enough for my parents to have been on active service during World War II - and young enough to have a son at primary school. Work that out for yourselves. This book is dedicated to my mother, Ruby. MICHAEL SWAINE |