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

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 view. I think of that when I’m writing my novels after readi