Reading

During my time at Waterstones I took for granted that reading was part of the job. We've all got a favourite book . Here's mine. It remains the only book I've read twice, first in 2002 when Maz introduced me to it and then ten years later when I used the opportunity of the Waterstones Book Group in King's Lynn to re-read. It lost nothing in those ten years.

I also took the chance to write to Michel Faber and ask a couple of questions, notably why the book had no perceptible ending. He wrote to say that Sugar's story had ended, quite simply.

It had to be enough and of course he's right. Any writer has the power over love or death for any of their creations; if we've chosen to fall in love with a character then that's our problem, not theirs.

Good book. Great writing.