An exhilarating moment in an otherwise quiet stretch of autumn:

Jenny Colgan has chosen my piano book as one of her Books of the Year in The Spectator (the print edition comes out on 13 November).

She calls it ‘one of the two most beautiful books I got my hands on this year.’

One can’t assume that writers have books on classical music on their piles of reading material, so this is a delightful surprise.