Dear friends,

I'm excited to share with you – before anyone else  – the finalised cover for All My Worldly Joy! 

*drumroll please, trumpets optional*

Tell me, what do you think? As you can see, we've kept the original design, but flipped the baby over so he's not breech (otherwise midwives would be informing me of this for the rest of my life). The subtitle has been elongated back to the original. When I first came up with it, it was supposed to be a placeholder for something more imaginative, but we decided that the title and the image are both wacky enough  – what was needed was something plainspoken and even a bit mundane, like a cushion for the casual browser to land on. There is a possibility that someone might actually purchase this book out of a shop, although, in truth, I have no idea if anyone will, or what they will make of it if they do. I've read a lot of memoirs over the past few years and All My Worldly Joy isn't quite like any of them. That could be good or it could be bad. Let's see. Thank you, again, for indulging me in this venture.

The manuscript has been with the typesetters and I'm expecting a copy to proofread any day now. I'll be in touch with more news as I have it.

With love,

Laura x