A Literary Dilemma..

…but a wonderful dilemma all the same. This week I’ve had to write copy, send out press releases, organise invitations and generally market, what I sincerely hope will be our most important book of the year. It is a book I have read both in manuscipt form and in it’s proofed version.  The book- ‘Corvus-A life with Birds’. The author- my friend and Banchory colleague Esther Woolfson. The dilemma- I don’t want to embarrass her with my gushing; I want customers to know it is genuine; and what if she is the only member of staff on the shop floor when someone comes in to enquire about…”that craw book in the windae”? Actually I want to run up Banchory High Street and shout “come and buy Corvus…it’s fab!”. But I’ll have to wait. Corvus is published on August 4th. Esther is currently writing for, and being interviewed by, every broadsheet newspaper in the land and Corvus will be Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’. The rest of the Banchory team wish her every success because she absolutely deserves it. They also get a home made Woolfson cake each Tuesday and so they do ever so slightly hope that the roller coaster of publicity doesn’t start to consume too much of her time. 

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