Spoiler alert – possibly, sort of…

Congratulations on finding your way to this page. The following excerpt is one of the scenes that was deleted during a final edit. It was one of the earliest scenes I wrote and helped me establish the mood of the novel in my own mind, and it remains a piece I particularly like. However, that wasn’t a good enough reason to keep it and when I felt it might be more distracting than useful, I knew it had to go – sometimes you’ve got to ‘kill your darlings’ in this sense too. It’s not really a spoiler, I suppose, but might give an insight into one of the key characters. The scratching on the window very likely found its birth in that wonderful scene in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.