Just received this in the post.  I’ve been fortunate enough to see The Girl with Glass Feet translated into quite a few different languages, and I’m always really thrilled to get copies of the finished books.  The ones that aren’t in Romance languages, however, are an especial treat.  Like most English people, I’m terrible at speaking anything else, but at least if I can recognise the letters I can have a clumsy go at a few sentences.  I can’t, of course, do that when the characters are of a kind I can’t read, but I get a thrill out of the opacity of the text.  I wrote this, I think, even though I don’t understand it.  And I love that.