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Unfortunately, 500 words -- however excellent they are -- is not quite enough for a self-help book Your suggestion that we could "pad out the rest with photographs" is unfortunately not really workable

Sadly, we have therefore decided that this is not a viable project and, as a result, would request that you return our advance forthwith

With all best wishes,

Pippa Brady

Editor

Helping you to help yourself

OUT NOW! Jungle Survival by Brig Roger Flintwood (deceased)

Fourteen

FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS, I don’t leave the house I don’t answer the phone and I don’t talk to anyone I feel physically raw, as though people’s gazes, or their questions, or even the sunlight, ht hurt one to Milton Keynes for a big sales andconference with Hadleys, so I’m all alone in the flat I order takeout, drink two bottles of white wine, and don’t once get out ofon the floor in the sitting roo blankly at the television, stuffing KitKats intoon the floor "Bex, are you OK? I shouldn’t have left you on your own"

"I’ my stiff face to twist into a sood, actually," says Suze, looking abashed "People kept congratulatingThey’d all heard of ns, and everybody loved thereat, Suze," I say, and reach up to squeeze her hand "You deserve it"

"Well You know" She bites her lip -- then picks up an empty wine bottle from the floor and puts it on the table

"So, did… Luke call?" she says hesitantly

"No," I say, after a long silence "No, he didn’t" I look at Suze, then look away again

"What are you watching?" she says, as an ad for Diet Coke co Coffee," I say "It’s the financial advice slot co up next"