I'm asked where I get characters. They are all around, they sit beside you on the bus, they stand next to you at the checkout, or apologise for getting in the way in the street but I like to know a lot more abo

ut my characters. What is Mrs Boniface's house like, for instance. She never eats in the kitchen and sets her table properly. Her front room has a glass fronted display cabinet with her good china displayed in it. There is a table at the window with two brass candlesticks and a small posy in the middle. A photograph of her husband, who left her well provided for, oh, very well provided for, indeed, stands on a small desk she still writes letter at. The picture was taken during WW2 and her husband is in uniform. He was in  the Pay Corps and that's where he learned to handle money, some unkind people say he handled some of into ... Well, least said soonest mended.