Grand Central are publishing The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs on the 25 April, Easter Monday. I too will be in New York to celebrate. It has a different but very lovely cover (see left) and will be in all good bookshops, including  a front-of-store promotion at Barnes & Noble.

This will be the first time I’ve been away without my family. Instead of feeling liberated and young again, I feel pathetically scared and unsure of how I can cope without my permanent accessories. Any good New York tips welcome since I haven’t been there for over a decade. Yikes, I haven’t been there this millennium…