INTRODUCTION, November 2016Nearly three years have passed since I wrote "Hanson Drake". Three years, and more than a million letters and emails sent from eight million readers around the world asking questions about Hanson Drake's life.What can I possibly tell them? Tell you?BLURBHanson Drake has five hundred million in the bank and a house on the beach overlooking the ocean. As the writer of the world's favourite song, he hasn't had to do a day's work in his life.Stung into action by a derisive article in a national newspaper, Hanson Drake decides to change his life by becoming a volunteer at a country house.He vows to do at least one good deed every day in the twenty-four days leading up to Christmas, hoping to secure salvation and redemption for his wasteful life.In helping others-and learning to celebrate the ordinariness and eccentricities of the people he meets-he finally understands his place in the universe.But what does fate have planned for Hanson Drake?
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