The title of your £28-a-copy book, due to be published on January 10, has come under widespread scrutiny. And for good reason. You have chosen to call it ‘Spare’, no doubt in reference to the phrase ‘an heir and a spare’, coined in the 1890s by the American socialite Consuelo Vanderbilt.In your case — and this is an impression enhanced by your gloomy expression on the cover — the word has worrying connotations. And they’re all smacking of self-pity. Surplus to requirements; left out in the cold. The Spanish version of your tome is subtitled En Sombra: ‘in the shadow’. Others — and congrats on securing translations into 16 languages, by the way — refer to ‘Leftover’ and even ‘Reservist’.
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