Surely you can see that? Why patronise the readership further by not giving them an inkling as to what the book is about? And why compound the error by commanding us not to tell anyone else about the plot in order not to “spoil the surprise for them”? Grrr indeed. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. Two years later, they meet again – the story starts there … Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell your friends about it. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice. Nevertheless, you need to know enough to buy it so we will just say this: this is the story of two women. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. We don’t want to tell you what happens in this book. I would also, before I get onto the text itself, like to question your use of the blurb, which I include below:
Something of a wasted page then, dear Editor. Neither, I suspect, are most other readers.
Being a fairly intelligent reader, I might have guessed that you as the publisher would indeed like a novel you’d produced … Contrary to rumour, I am not actually a moron. It was something of a surprise and I must say rather irritating.
Thank you for your letter addressed to me that appears at the start of Chris Cleave’s novel, The Other Hand, and tells me how wonderful this book is. The Other Hand by Chris Cleave: But on the other hand …
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