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Hello Bernard

 

I hope you are well.

Firstly, I greatly enjoyed The Flame-Bearer, and without giving anything away for people who may not have read it, I was mildly surprised at the ending! I thought you would play that one out for a few more novels!

I also read Vagabond last Summer, NINE years after reading Harlequin! Heretic this Summer, I think!

I hope you’ll be amused to hear I had a very vivid dream the other night, about thecNapoleonic Wars!  I was a Redcoat Sgt called Hobbs, and we had to get into a Fortress and scaled the walls with ropes. I can remember assuring a young Officer that we always won. Which, I’m sure around 1812/13, the Brits had started realising!

I can remember us singing as we stalked the Fortress looking for “Frogs”. (possibly a bad strategy, if we were supposed to be surprising them!). I sang the Minstrel Boy. “Oh, glorious band, the chosen few, on whom the Spirit came..”

I can remember me and a young Marine bursting in on the French dining and I butchered a few with my bayonet. There was a bloody big scrap and I fought a couple of Indian Soldiers (not sure what they were doing there..), but the Officer I’d been with was killed. I’d promised nor  to leave his side, but..er…had…

Anyway, we killed the French, so HUZZAH!

I don’t think dreams are covered by Copyright, so feel free to use this in any future Sharpe’s!

Joking aside, do you ever dream about Sharpe or Uhtred of Thomas of Hookton? Or have you ever dreamt up a plot or character and then used it?

I wanted to read a Sharpe again, because its been a while, so after that dream there was only one I could read..Sharpe’s Company! That was always one of my favourites.

Hope you don’t think I’ve gone completely mad by telling you this!

Looking forward to Uhtred 11!

Warm Regards

Matt Copley