Cheers, Doris.

The news that one of my favourite writers, Doris Lessing, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature has been bracing and cheering. I am delighted. She is a system wide favourite of ours - popular with absolutely everyone here at Polly HQ - not all her books for all of us, but all of us love something of hers. Something for everyone.

We like to flirt with the idea that Doris Lessing is multiple, like us. The Jane Somer books are so different from The Good Terrorist which is so different from the amazing Shikasta series. And if you look for it, like we do, in the writing itself, evidence is everywhere.

Multiple or not, congratulations Doris.