Dear sir,

Please forgive me but I’m now going to ask you the strangest 2 questions you’ve probably every been asked since you created Richard Sharpe………..

Have you ever looked at any of the other characters (born the other side of the fence)  and thought, “that’s who Sharpe would be like had he been raised in a loving environment” ?

Because ultimately I believe in a combination of nature and nuture, so I’m sure Sharpe’s fighting spirit would have surfaced.

Also whom were the characters from the middle/upper classes you felt most wanted to be more like Sharpe?  I think Jorge Vicente (for me) is an obvious one based on Sharpe’s Escape, although with a few more “morals”  and I think Simmerson would like to be as brave as Sharpe in his own mind,  he is……..but when it comes to reality…………..Oh dear!

I know, 2 extremely strange questions indeed………….

Lee