Well, first of all, I'll let

people see the novel, London Gothic.

I'm going to read the opening two chapters.

The first one's very short and the second one's not much longer.

And again, the chapter titles are the year in which the chapter takes place and they're alternating.

So it's going to be 1975, the very opening chapter, and then 1984.

So, okay.

Again,

But if you had a character that you really enjoyed writing.

You know, I don't want to give the answer that first comes to mind, which is all of them.

Because at each stage, you're just spending time with that character.

And hopefully, all of the characters seem to the reader to be very different characters.

Um, but I think the, the most fun I had, the two characters was, um, uh, a character we haven't, we haven't talked to him and we only appears in one chapter.

Um, his name is Simon Birdsall, who is the father of, uh, of, um, uh, Dennis Birdsall, who I've mentioned, uh, And Simon, in some ways, is at the heart of the novel.

It'll be interesting once the book is out there that a number of people have read it, whether they see it that way.

And if you'd like any any notes about men suffering from the patriarchy.