How it feels to have a book published

It’s 4.38 am, in the early hours of Thursday, 14th September. I’m wide awake, staring into the darkness of my room (well, mainly darkness. I live next to a train line so there is the occasional flashing light!). I have to be up for work in less than three hours, but even though I know I’ll be tired in the morning, I can’t sleep. My book is being published today. It’s a moment I have been waiting for for 27 years, and nervous doesn’t even begin to cover it.

In the morning, it honestly feels a...