Okay.

So this is a, a North London dinner party.

It's right at the start of the book.

"Tanya came through from the kitchen with another tray of small things on sticks, olives, chunks of pineapple.

Our eyes met.

'I'm going through a '70s thing,' she said.

'Prawn cocktail, Steak Diane, Black Forest gateau, onion soup with croutons, coq au vin, veal escalopes.

Did you plan exactly where to scatter the clues, or did something surprise you once, once you were actually drafting?