Finding the right way to start a book is difficult at the best of times. But when you're trying to kick off the final book in a series that has run for over a decade, the task is ten times harder..! The current opening scene is, I think, the fourth or fifth different opening scene I've had in the last seven months. But I am hopeful that I've finally landed on the one that will greet readers when they open the first page of the book this Christmas. (Funnily enough, the chapter
