In May 2015, I raised funds for The Art Room, a charity for young people then based in Cowley, Oxford, by running a 66-mile (106km) ultramarathon around the Isle of Wight. A decade on, I have a taken on a literary marathon – against the odds – by publishing my autobiography and I will be overtly supporting the charity the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA).

I am pledging 100% of my net income from my Second Edition to NACOA. This is important, and personal, to me. I suffered my own childhood trauma from an alcoholic parent, and typically harboured events and suppressed emotions. I became trapped in my own head for several decades.

With my own recovery from alcoholism it has become very apparent that alcoholism can typically pass between generations in any one family. I hope to aid awareness around this and break the generational chain-link in my own family.