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Highlighting Highs

I've always been a highlighter. I can't resist a neon coloured pen. And when they come in a range of designs with flowers on them or cute ears on the lids which make you think of pandas ... Well, I think there are many people out there who will agree – stationery rocks and cute stationery rocks like Hugh Jackman.  There are definite similarities as far as I'm concerned. When I was at Uni my notes were covered in a range of florid colours which needed an elaborate key to be understood. At times I had to study the key and commit it to memory just in order to understand the notes I'd made. So imagine my excitement when I discovered the highlighter on my word processing package came in a range of dandy colours, but sadly, no panda ears. This little resource should not go to waste I thought. But Sharp Dark Things (2 nd novel, in case you've forgotten) did not require a great deal of highlighting in the text. My embryonic...