Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy by Faye Brann

In the end, after a spring getting Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy ready for publication and a summer spent reading, musing and generally procrastinating (as well as promoting my very new, very real book), I started writing properly in September. It didn’t matter, in the end I had loads of ideas, although it took a while to land on the thing that felt right, not least because of lockdowns and covid and, well, you know the rest. I’d love to do one, but I need each of you to sell the first book to another 3,000 of your closest friends before I get to write Vicky again. It’s not, before you ask (lots of people have). Way back when I understood nothing of how publishing works, I thought my next book would be a sequel. But if I thought I was done learning how to write a book, I was sorely mistaken. When the assignment gets uncomfortably close to home, Vicky must decide if she has got what the job takes after all, and if home is really where her heart is.I learned a lot about writing from Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy certainly, my writer toolkit has improved dramatically and while writing my new manuscript I’ve patted myself on the back a number of times for not falling into any classic bad-writer traps this time around. So, when a newcomer on the PTA sets alarms bells ringing and MI5 comes calling, she's determined to prove that despite her expanding waistline and love of pink gin, she's still every bit the cold-eyed special operative. But beneath the school runs and bake sales, Vicky had never quite said goodbye to the past. Not even her husband, and certainly not the other mums at the school gate. And apart from being outstandingly good at paintball, no one would ever know that in a past life she was an undercover spy and has been trained to kill a man with her bare hands. and skilfully written' Yomi Adekoke, Slay in Your Lane Vicky Turnbull has never regretted giving up her career for family life in the suburbs.

page turning, smart and sassy' Helen Lederer, comedian, author and founder of the CWIP Prize 'Fresh and different. put on a smile on my face' Libby Page, The Lido 'Naturally funny.

Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy by Faye Brann