I have just read your response to Barry Evans and in it you say you always find it hard to re read the death of Defels daughter. I thought your readers may be in the same situation as I indeed am: I can’t help shed a tear or two especially as my daughter is about the same age now. Even more poignant is the Isis (UK) recording read by Edmund Dein, he puts so much extra emotion into the passage as you hear his tortured breathing, the pauses, the tones of his voice and so on; it alost sounds as if Derfel himself is talking and trying not (but failing) to cry. If any of your readers have not listened to this version of your Arthur trilogy I suggest they either purchase them or borrow them from their local library: they are simply terrific. Andrew Moore