I have read your books since childhood, and I struggle to read any other type of book! I would like to know when writing Sharpe, do you have to consciously think what Sharpe’s personality is like? Do you feel as you yourself have aged, has Sharpe changed too throughout the series? And my final silly question! Have you truly grasped how fantastically phenomenal your books are and the affect they had had on a person such as myself? Glynn McCarthy