Hello Mr. Cornwell,

best regards (just bought Fools and Mortals, I’m really excited to read it!) I was thinking about something about the Last Kingdom series that i’d like to ask you. In Warriors of the Storm we finally after a long absence see a returned Brida. She had previously been furious with Uhtred when he left Ragnar and had stayed there in Dunholm in the north, where it seemed inevitable that she would play a part in the story. Her relationship to Uhtred and her character itself had so much dramatic, emotional potential I cannot stopped feeling disappointed that she came back as mad witch who does horrible things, showing no sympathetic features whatsoever unlike many of the norse antagonists or say Nimue. She and Uhtred never had a single exchange of words, she just showed up being an completely evil insane witch that a vile norse lord used for the fear she gave and then she died horribly and Uhtred didn`t have a single thought or feeling about it, she could have easily been a whole different character. I was just wandering if you could say why did you brought her back like this?

Pedro Oliveira