‘I think what I want to say in your book is that the bad things are hard but sometimes the good things are hard too,’ Michael says. ‘For me, it’s a really important point, that life can be hard in its evidently hard moments, but even things that are really good and really worth doing – and I love my wife to bits, and she me, and we have a strong marriage – they can be hard too.’ ‘If I’m understanding you, what you’re saying is that life is both good and bad simultaneously, is that right?

