
Accidents of fate – in real life and in fiction
This month I'm re-running one of my most popular blog posts. What if your grandfather never met your grandmother? That’s easy – you wouldn’t exist. What if your grandfather died in an accident and your grandmother moved back to where she came from? Then the whole family tree would be uprooted and a different set of relatives would be born… and you wouldn’t exist. We’re all the product of countless accidents of fate. Or accidents of happenstance, depending on your point of