Hey, my name is Eleanor Young,I read the Sharpe series the minute my mum would let me, originally because I had read every other book worth merit in our house. I was 10 at the time, just starting senior school, and your novels often helped me escape every day life. You made me laugh, and cry- well your characters did. I am now 16, and haven’t read them for a while, as when I did they were so well loved, my parents wouldn’t let me touch them again. Here is hoping they let me now I am more mature. I have also read Gallows thief and Crowning Mercy, and soon plan to read more of your books, the minute I can get to a library, or can borrow them off my boyfriend. One last thing, Thank you, I did a course in the Napoleonic era for A level History I don’t figure I would have found it very interesting if I hadn’t previously read your books