I wrote quite a long piece about my lifelong love affair with France in last Saturday's Daily Mail...

(http://www.rayconnolly.co.uk/pages/jo...)

...ending with a mention of my novel Sunday Morning which is now available on Kindle.

To my surprise and delight there's been a mini-boom in the sales of Sunday Morning since then, which is thrilling because although it's obviously fiction it also contains quite a few bits and pieces of my own life.

Lots of writers obviously cloak their lives in fiction, but I've found that, in so far as Sunday Morning is concerned, I occasionally have false memories, thinking momentarily that what happened in the book happened to me. Then I have to pinch myself, and remember that I made it up.