A LIGHTBULB moment — and I don't have too many of those — by a hotel pool in Sorrento, just thinking about the buildings and the people there. Not the holidaymakers, but those whose lives revolve around the shops, bars and restaurants; people like Franco, Pino and Rossi.
What would it be like to be them? Could I be like them? I couldn't afford the move, but I started to write this on my iPad and created Michael Morrison, who could and did.
The story has changed a lot since that day but Franco, Pino and Rossi all made it into The Choreography of Ghosts.