I am due home at the beginning of October. Within days of returning I will be thrown into the publicity tour for Last Tango. The plan is that David will travel with me for the first week of the tour, starting at the Brisbane Writers’ Festival and then to Sydney where I am booked to speak at a Dymocks/Sydney Morning Herald literary lunch at the Sheraton Hotel. It is all very exciting. But once the book launch and promotion are out of the way, we will have Christmas together with the whole family and then sit down in January or February and try to make some serious long-term decisions. I know that I will be able to think more clearly and rationally when I am back at the farm. Here in France everything seems like a blur, as though my vision is clouded. Just as they always have been, our working lives are very separate and often diverse. While I am leading the tour group through the backblocks of France, David is having meetings for a film project that he has been developing for some time.
