Just watched the first episode of Sharpe’s Challenge, which is based on your books but written by someone else. Really good story and excellent continuity to the books, except for one thing – Lucille Castineau is dead, probably in the winter 1816/1817. How does this fit? The short story Sharpe’s Ransom has her very much alive post Waterloo, around Christmas, and young Patrick is but a toddler. Does this mean she dies in early 1817 and Patrick is raised by his dad? Simon Banks