Me and my friend Nina have done this thing for years where, if we are giving a gift that we would quite like to keep for ourselves, we pass it over but keep hold of it until we are virtually tussling on the floor trying to grab the present back from each other. Its become a tradition that I don't think the lovely Anna Murphy of Stella Magazine will understand tonight when I hand her this book for her 40th birthday.
Its a special edition of Jane Eyre with gold and black laminate embossing on the cover and an illustration by Ruben Toledo. Its beautiful and I mourn its loss already BUT, I was given a special edition of To Kill a Mockingbird for my 40th and it was one of my favourite presents. So I'll have to.
