Hello, Mr Cornwell.

My girlfriend started reading your Arthur books.

In the very first pages she was completely in love with your writing. I never thought she could be interested in stories about bearded men beating his bloody swords against one another and rolling in each others tripes, after all she is a very romantic girl who loves stories filled with tears, love confessions and impossible romances… Oh, wait … I think your Arthur books have a lot of it!

Like me, her favorite character it’s Nimue.

She asked me a few times if, deep down, Nimue loved Derfel.

I said yes, because that’s what I believe, but what would you respond?

(In the third book, when Nimue launches the plague against Ceinwyn, her attitude of sinister pleasure told me that, deep down, her real wish was to have lived a normal life with Derfel, as wife, rather than have turned into what she became. Of course she have her fascinating passion about the gods and her duties to them, but, as I say, deep down, I believe she envied Ceinwyn. She envied their happiness.)

Eilton Ribeiro