When she quit London to move to Northumberland she set up a blog called wife in the north and it "did that viral thing". Which was good and normally she doesn't like viral things because they make her sneeze. Pretty much immediately she was offered a book deal which was very nice of the book people, and the fact she wrote a book made her mother very happy. "Wife in the North" was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and serialised in The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. After a while she wrote another book - a novel which is living in a drawer and which she doesn't talk about anymore. Her third book called A Year of Doing Good is published in January 2013. For a year she tried to be a better person - it didn't work.