We have just published a new edition of “Autumn Daffodils – Joanna’s story”. When we re-looked at it, my immediate reaction was that it was a great story, but also how ( four novels later) it could be improved. The story is the same, but I have changed the entire essence of the book. Joanna is a wonderful character to work with; she is the archetypal female goddess who, for those of us who live on a more earthly plain, would only be seen on the front cover of Vogue magazine. This is what makes her so interesting because, behind those glamorous images, there is always a real person as vulnerable as the rest of us. In the first Daffodils book, “Charlie’s Story”, Joanna is that Vogue cover girl; she is the fairy-tale that Charlie falls for. She returns in “Joanna’s Story”, but this is no longer the glamourous cover girl; she is now thirty years older, a mother, and has the weight of the world pressing on her shoulders.