‘Thank you very much for Harry's Awakening. As usual you manage to keep the suspense developing and increasing so that one longs to find out what will happen. This time it seems to me that you have left just a tiny crack of possibility that Harry might come back from the dead, like Sherlock Holmes - perhaps in response to public demand, as he did? You so much want him to get his come-uppance, though you could argue that that is effectively delivered by his mum. I thought there was a faint possibility of redemption in the church scene early on, but that was a flash in the pan. Cherry is a disappointment, a Good Woman who might have saved him blinded by his energy and ultimately fatal resourcefulness. I doubt if any beginner-sailor could have achieved what you describe, however. Christian Howard is a creepy figure of evil, lost in illusions. Only Harry is drawn with any depth, and we still don't hear anything much of his ideology, beyond the rabid cliches he throws at the vicar. Perhaps that is all there is to the far right. They can't even be consistent with their racial purity. Anyway, thanks again - a great read!