\u201cHi. Listen, I know that this looks bad, and you have every right to call the Police or just run like Hell, but I didn\u2019t believe your assistant that you had seen my request for an appointment to meet with you, and well\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
I was aware that if I kept talking I could well be accused of trying to do too much; that tailing off and not belabouring the point might indeed serve me better than sounding too desperate.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not often that one of your literary heroes catches you shinning over their garden wall on a sunny Saturday afternoon, but I had been getting desperate. As a solution, having worked out roughly where DeLacey was living, I had spent Friday evening buying drinks in the village pub until the actual location of his house was shaken loose. Now here I was, on my knees in the camelia bed, gesturing a little wildly with a notebook and hoping that perhaps the greatest novelist of my lifetime was going to be amused or at least curious rather than angry.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet up, young man. Would you like a cup of tea perhaps?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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