I’ve been re-reading my Sharpe collection. I’ve always wanted to know are there any deliberate messages from yourself in the debris from Jane and Rossendale’s betrayal and theft? Every time I read it I keep finding myself thinking you’re trying to say :- Money doesn’t guarantee you happiness, as Jane finishes Sharpe’s Waterloo with money, but she’s pregnant and without her love and a potential shunning from the society she craves to be apart of? Whereas Sharpe finishes the Battle of Waterloo as commander of the South Essex (was that ratified?) he was in a happy relationship with a home and family. To me Sharpe ends that book and that story as the winner and definitely the happier person. Was it a conscious message from yourself or just coincidence?

Lee