From Chorlton to a car boot sale in Cheshire

Well it had to come, the day one of the books you wrote turns up in a car boot sale.

Now David who came across a copy of The Story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy was a tad apologetic about bringing me the news.*

And there is something about seeing a piece of work you have laboured over pop up in the back of someone's car ready to go on a trestle table along with sundry kitchen utensils and that painting by amateur artist Aunt Ethel.

But that is the way of things.

And long ago I accepted that its retail value in the shops was undercut by Amazon and other cheap mail order firms.

David assures me that the people selling it had read it, enjoyed it but were just downsizing.

Not that I am upset, Chorlton Book shop tell me they still sell roughly one a week and have just ordered in a new batch.

It is also on the shelves of the big shops in town and continues to receive good reviews.

All this I say not out of egotism but recognition that it is still being read, so while I always knew it would never reach the sale rate of a Harry Potter novel I am pleased.

And of course this way the book is being read all over again.

David bought it at a knock down rate and has promised to review it all over again on his blog. **

So, adapting that American newspaper headline from a Presidential victory, "We all win."

Picture; adapted by Peter Topping

*The Story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/the-story-of-chorlton-cum-hardy.html

** The Didsbury Village Bookshop, http://www.didsburyvillagebookshop.co.uk/