A taster...

There's a little bit of 'Personal Demons' here, if you're interested.

It's from close to the beginning of the book. Our hero, Blake, is obsessed with the fair Maria, but she hardly notices him (apart from when he makes a fool of himself, which is increasingly frequent). But Blake's fortunes are changing - he recently found the key to a secret storeroom in his Granddad's bookshop...