I’ve now finished
the first draft of the story and I’m part way through reading it and seeing if the
structure works. The final chapter is a bit of an epilogue. I don’t want to
give any spoilers here but I’ll simply say that it involves two characters that
Clara knew when she was in Theriesenstadt.
As soon as I’d
finished it I realised that it in effect contains the whole story, yet reading
it first wouldn’t really be a spoiler for the whole book.
It is the
blueprint for the story, or if you like, the DNA of the whole novel.
