Catching up with old friends, making a new one and laughing so hard, a bit of wee comes out.

There are a million things I'm thankful for today. Well, what is my guest thankful for?

I cannot imagine my life without her. She is a symbol of my entire adult existence. She's seen me through all of this.

And she's so important to me that I think I'm going to get her stuff to when she dies.

Welcome to Thanks A Million. I'm Angela Scanlon and this is the show that takes a sneaky

look at my guest's gratitude list to find out the things that shapes their lives.

Today I'm off to meet author, broadcaster, journalist and friend Dono Porter.

She's been thinking a lot about gratitude herself for her new book, so lucky.

Her sixth book, yes, she's an underachiever and we love her for it.

Hi, D.O.P.

Hey, sweetheart. Doppie, hot patooties.

Talk to me a little bit about the book because I read it on holidays.

I got one of those lovely proofreads and I read it in a day and a half.

It was really obnoxious actually because it was like, don't worry, I have a kid, I have a husband.

They were very much sidelined for those couple of days, which is,

I guess, what you want to hear, but also is what you want from a book is to be kind of so

invested in it that you just can't wait to see what happens or what unravels, kind of.

Well, that makes me happy because I definitely think about that when I'm writing.

So just think I want, when I wrote the cows, I realized that a lot of my readers are women with

small children like me. And reading is incredibly challenging as considering my job is to write,

I don't read very much because I just fall asleep in the upright position as I get into bed.

So I think I want to make it a rivetingeting speedy read for people. So I tried to make

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