I broke my front teeth right off about 3 weeks ago in an accident, the only appointment I could get was this morning. I'm shit scared of the dentist. Yesterday about this time, I was trying to stop everything in my mind being about the dentist, and thought 'by this time tomorrow, your appointment is over.' It helped me get through last night and this morning. It seems like a similar tactic.

I love Towards Zero and Crooked House. I also love Nemesis, Sleeping Murder and 5 Little Pigs. She's endlessly inventive and quite remorseless.

An ex boyfriend of mine once tore his book into thirds so I could read it too (we'd both wanted to read it but he'd started it first) - I was horrified at the time (damaging a sacred book!) but then I thought, it's the content that matters. If you can bear to separate the book into the separate novels, I would do that.

I read it twice too, second time to see what I'd missed. I really didn't like it, I still can't work out why.