Dear Mr Cornwell
I am a huge fan of your writing and have read most everything you have written, but I do have one question regarding your early influences and your decision to write historical novels. As a youngster did you ever read any of the novels written by Ronald Welch? Like you he wrote historical fiction and I read all his novels as an early teenager, especially as his first one Son of York started off in a small Welsh village called Kenfig Hill, a place my late mother was born and brought up in. Apologies if you have been asked this question before, but I am curious to know as very few people I have ever spoken to have ever even heard of him.
Very best wishes and kindest regards
Chris