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Colin Greenland
Thanks for letting us know that, Maria. Susanna's been ill for fifteen years, maybe more, with chronic fatigue. That's not really a diagnosis, the doctors admit, just a very general description of the symptoms. One of the many, many tests she's had was for Lyme Disease. She tested positive. She's tried dozens of different treatments over the years, as you can imagine, including cutting out gluten. Some treatments may have helped a little, possibly; most, not at all. Some treatments that have cured other sufferers actually made her more ill. She's not too bad at the moment, thanks for asking, though what she's found is that it's better for her to concentrate on managing the energy she has than to use it on pursuing a cure. That's hard for her, but it's how she succeeded, very slowly, in writing *Piranesi*. I'm glad you like it so much. So do I.
Colin Greenland
I'd go at once to the village of Nutwood, so perfectly and generously imagined by the great Alfred Bestall. Of course I'd like to meet Rupert Bear, though I rather feel I have, many times over the years, in the persons of the enquiring and adventurous young sons of friends and neighbours, though few of them are as scrupulously well-behaved as Rupert. Even more, I'd like to see his home, the quintessence of rural England, yet the gateway to countless other realms – the South Seas, Imperial China, the bottom of the sea and the aerial Kingdom of the Birds, the subterranean haunts of the various Imps and the Ice Palace of King Frost. From Nutwood, it seems, you can get to any and all of these with remarkable speed and ease, see all the marvels they hold, and still be home in time for tea.
Colin Greenland
I see *Y is for Yesterday* is due out in August. I shall want to read that as soon as I can get my hands on a copy.
Excellent title, by the way.
I first met Kinsey Millhone in *C is for Corpse*, picked at random from the Crime section in Harrow Public Library. I wasn't far into it before I knew I had to go straight back to *A is for Alibi* and get the whole story. I've been getting it ever since, letter by letter.
And as soon as I've read *Z is for Zero*, I mean to go back to A and do it all over again.
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Sue Grafton is so good. I read one of her dad's, and that was good too. They're not much alike, as I recall, any more than Alafair Burke is like James Lee Burke.
Excellent title, by the way.
I first met Kinsey Millhone in *C is for Corpse*, picked at random from the Crime section in Harrow Public Library. I wasn't far into it before I knew I had to go straight back to *A is for Alibi* and get the whole story. I've been getting it ever since, letter by letter.
And as soon as I've read *Z is for Zero*, I mean to go back to A and do it all over again.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Sue Grafton is so good. I read one of her dad's, and that was good too. They're not much alike, as I recall, any more than Alafair Burke is like James Lee Burke.
Colin Greenland
If you aspire to be a writer, there are three things you must do:
Write today.
Write tomorrow.
Write the day after.
Write today.
Write tomorrow.
Write the day after.
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