Dear Sir, I very much enjoy your books. I am pleasantly reading my way through the Sharpe novels. Even though I am a pacifist I still love them. Have finished the Grail Quest series. I really would like another one like The Gallows Thief. I did not mean to carry on so, I really have simple question. What does the beginning vowel in AEthelwold sound like. I am a non-phonetic reader and things like that give me great difficulty. And to think I taught grade school for thirty years! Once again, I enjoy your greatly. Sincerely yours, Steve Kennedy