Jenny Salaman Manson lives in North London. She retired from HMRC in November 2011 and now serves as a trustee of two local charities. She published a book of essays on the day to day human experience of consciousness, What it Feels Like to be Me (O Books, 2010) and in 2012 she edited Public Service on the Brink, (Imprint Academic Ltd, Exeter, 2012).