I had a small drinks gathering last night to toast the launch of the book. It was done with the excellent global poverty campaigne
rs War on Want. I chose them not just because they fight the causes of global poverty but also because I like the pun of a war on want. They mean poor people and I mean those that consume too much. The problem of the evening was of course knowing what to wear! With the cheap wine flowing it felt a bit like a time share convention only the unlucky guests weren’t being shoe-horned into buying two weeks of the year in a dodgy Costa apartment – just a book. Anyway today the book got an incredibly generous review in the New Statesman by Sophie Elmhirst. She is very kind to me but most importantly for me she gets what I am trying to do with it. Others will judge whether I succeed.