More edits. quite a lot of changes being made. My protagonist’s best friend died in the original version, written just after my dad and step mum died within weeks of one another. So clearly a lot of ‘stuff’ I needed to write out of my soul. However my editor felt – quite rightly – that my protagonist had too much going on in her life and the death of her best friend was too much. Authors have the power over life and death and so Lydia, the friend lives, untouched by cancer, although there is another crisis for the two friends to deal with. Throughout my writing career I have always plotted very carefully and fully – this book was more of a pantser – and now I’m paying for that as there is so much editing to be done. Lesson for the future.