We have a winner...

A panel of international judges deliberated over the entries to my limerick competition last night. (Oh, all right, my husband and some friends over from New Zealand.) They marked each limerick, awarded points after great discussion and finally picked a unanimous winner.

What's that? You want to know who it is?
You want to know who won that amazing parcel-of-books prize?

Oh, okay.






Here goes.....








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I can almost SMELL the tension.....







Nearly there.....






I'm happy to announce that this year's winner is..... PAT POSNER!

Pat! You've won! Send me an email with your address asap and I'll pass it on to the lovely kind people at Macmillan who will pack up the humungous parcel of goodies and send it to you. Congratulations! Round of applause for Pat, please. And a big thank you to everyone else who entered. I did love reading your fantastic limericks and it was a very close-run thing.

Finally, it just leaves me to say that TODAY is the official publication day of Hens Reunited. Please wish it a safe and happy journey into the bookshops and customers' hands! And if you end up with a copy yourself, I hope you like it.

That's all from me for a while...