Meet Ruth: read my novel 'Thaw' for free

"These hands are ninety-three years old. They belong to Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. She was so frail that her grand-daughter had to carry her onto the set to take this photo. It’s a close-up. Her emaciated arms emerge from the top corners of the photo and the background is black, maybe velvet, as if we’re being protected from seeing the strings. One wrist rests on the other, and her fingers hang loose, close together, a pair of folded wings. And you can see her insides."

Fiona writes: So begins the diary of Ruth, a 32 year old microbiologist in London who is giving herself three months to decide whether or not to kill herself.

Her diary over those three months is my novel, Thaw. It's not for the faint-hearted.

You can read the whole novel for free, with no catches, here.

This blog been there for a little while - originally Ruth's diary entries appeared day by day and people read them in real time. A surprising number kept reading until the very end...

Kaspa has just redesigned the blog rather beautifully, and I've just spent a few hours adding a 'turn the page' link to the bottom of every post to make it like a proper book and everything.

If you'd rather read it on a more forgiving screen or in the bath, here are the links to the Kindle in the UK (only £2.46) or US ($3.87) or at Amazon UK or Amazon US. You can find my other novels there too.

Enjoy, and if you do enjoy, do tell your friends.