The Merchant’s Tale (English Edition)

My editor tells me that this book is appropriate "for the more intelligent reader".

I had intended it as a simple, low-brow bodice-ripper but somehow it's ended up more "Virginia Woolf in a good mood" than "Dan Brown in a wig".

So there we are: if you think "Mrs. Dalloway" is a good book, buy mine; if you think "The Da Vinci Code" constitutes literature, don't.

Great marketing, that...saying my novel is entirely different from the best-selling book of recent times...