I just wanted you to know that I have enjoyed reading your books. My mother found a ‘not for public sale’ copy of Sharpe’s Trafalgar in a thrift store several years ago and I’ve been hooked on the series since. (I was reading the Hornblower series and trying to wade through the Jack Aubrey series, so I imagine she thought she’d found me another naval book.) I also love to read the Starbuck series. I live in northern Virginia so many of the battlefields are right in my backyard and were regular fieldtrip destinations during school. Anyways, in return for her hooking me on you, I loaned my mother ‘The Last Kingdom’ last month, because she likes that particular time period. I had to buy a second copy, she won’t give it back. Araminta Shie