I wrote this because I wanted to explain to people on LinkedIn - who mostly know me as someone who campaigns about better public spaces for teenage girls - why the book was also relevant to them.  But I put it on Substack because I need a space to put random thoughts about stuff, so I thought I'd share it here too.

At the moment, I do two things. I'm the trustee and co-founder of a charity…

I asked the lovely people at Unbound, what sort of things do people want to read about in these updates?

Oh, they said, talking about how the writing of the book is getting on is always good, people like that.

So here I am.  But there will only ever be one of this kind of update, because The Hard Way is written.  The walks are all walked and the words are all considered and finished and the…

There's a danger that all of my updates are going to be entitled 'thank you' but in this case it seems particularly appropriate.  

The Hard Way has been live on Unbound for just over two days and it's already a third funded, which is past my wildest imaginings.  

So this post is really only to say thank you to every single one of you for supporting the book so far, it's very much appreciated…