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Welcome, finally, to my website. Here's info on me, my books and other writings, what I'm up to, and the inevitable deeply self-absorbed blog. Visit, graze, leave a comment, then go out into the sunshine and read.
Marathon of carnage.................
So MUCH to write about in one day! Like the fact that The Knife of Never Letting Go - in addition to being on the Carnegie Medal shortlist - has just won the James Tiptree Prize, an American award for books dealing with gender. Which is a fantastic and lovely surprise.
And in other big news, I finished the London Marathon yesterday covered in blood, and still somehow managed a personal best. I took a very bad tumble over an in-the-way traffic cone at 16.7 miles and had to run last ten miles with bloody knee (pictured!) and an increasingly swollen ankle.
I'm a little cross as, if I hadn't fallen, I was on pace for really great time, but despite being slowed (and having to walk for a while when things got too bad), I still finished in 4 hours, 26 minutes. Not bad at all. AND I can still walk today. In fact, it's the sunburn that's the bigger problem...
