I’ve had these characters hanging around for a while now, but each time I tried to write them they always petered out… It was never right. Alison and Celia Griffin fought back each time I tried to put them into a book. They didn’t like what I had in store for them, and each time the ideas just went slowly downhill and I stopped writing.
I watch a lot of renovation programs and thought one day – why not renovate a magic kingdom? The very next morning this first chapter wrote itself, and this time it feels right.