Originally published: New York: Viking; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
He was a writer and she was his number one fan. She had pulled him out of the car-wreck, brought him home and splinted and set his mangled legs. All he had to do in return was to write a very special book, just for her, all about her favourite character from his novels. If he didn't, she would make him scream.