Alexander McCall Smith’s The Department of Sensitive Crimes, about a very nice detective who has a deaf dog that can lip read.
My new book, The Hospital Dog, is about a dog too, so that just tickled me.I have muesli with blackberries. Malcolm [Julia’s husband, a retired paediatric consultant] criss-crosses half a mango and eats it with a spoon.
I’ll have a bath and leave the water for Malcolm. I like nice, smelly stuff in the bath, which I buy from the post office across the road [in Steyning, West Sussex].
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