Except I know how old she is. I know she’s forty. Because the woman in the advert is me.
I remember writing this line and grinning to myself, sitting in my tiny office in our old house. I’d had a rough year, writing-wise. My debut, I LET YOU GO, had become a New York Times bestseller and translated around the world, and you’d imagine I’d have been on cloud nine, but I found it all incredibly stressful. How on earth could I ever write anything as good as I LET YOU GOagain? I wrote my second novel, and worked on it for months, but just couldn’t make it sing. I gave up on it and stared at a blank page. When the idea for I See You arrived I felt a shot of adrenaline I hadn’t felt since writing I LET YOU GO. I sat at my computer and wrote this chapter and, instantly, the pressure I’d been feeling disappeared. Here it was: here was my second novel.
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