Keith returned to Northumberland to set up keithhann.com early in 2004, and spent the next four years systematically disposing of his few remaining clients so that he could devote all his time to writing a big, tragicomic novel about a Northern retail entrepreneur who floats his business on the stock market and then tries to buy it back.

He stated that his remaining ambitions were to find a wife and to die in his own bed, ideally not simultaneously.

Then, amazingly, on or around April Fool's Day 2008 he received an e-mail from an evidently deranged total stranger, containing an application to fill the vacant post of wife (admittedly on behalf of someone else). 

Reader, he married her.

That will just leave the one ambition, then.


Star sign: Gemini
Key words: frank, penetrating, cynical, attentive to detail