After working as a copywriter for 14 years, Sarah McCartney took time off to finidh this novel. What happened next wasn't part of the plan. Sarah wanted to add a provide a list of perfumes that smelled just like the ones she described, but couldn't find them, so instead - using the knowledged she'd acquired, and adding to it week by week - she started to make them. Then instead of asking to read the novel, her friends and family asked her to make them their own perfumes. two years later she set up 4160Tuesdays, a London indie perfume house now selling to niche perfume shops in the UK, Europe, Canada and the US. FInally, having made most of the perfumes in the book, she decided to get it ready for publication - and here it is.