I caught up on Jessie Burton's moody novel, set in 17th century Amsterdam. Did it live up to the hype? Did the screen version do it justice? And what did everyone wear? Find out!

Your first draft will be a terrible mess - and that's ok! Time to embrace the chaos of the first step of the writing process.

All's well that ends well, right?

In which all of our main characters pass the idiot ball so hard and fast between them I consider just getting drunk with Frances.

In which our heroine hits the Peter Principle hard and I start to wonder if the Ethians actually are the baddies.