This was actually the first book I wrote. Well, at least the first half was. I hate crowds and was living in Central London (go figure!) as I hated the commute more than the density of humanity. So after I made it home one day, feeling very much like a salmon that had made it way upstream to its spawning grounds, I thought to myself: under what conditions would it be ok to not care about the fallout from sprinting down the road? What would have to be at risk to make it ok to ignore common courtesy and polite society and just bowl your way down a crowded footpath?

So when I finally decided to try and lasso one of the stories flickering through my head and see if I could capture it on the page, I started with that one. I painfully mapped it out and set to writing. It wasn’t fun but I was reasonably happy with how it turned out.

Then I wrote the other books. After which I realized that I could add another half to Alice and convert it into the conclusion of the series.

The second half of Alice was effectively a bunch o anecdotes and work stories gleaned form my time in the trenches at various places from start-up to big corporate. A lot of the characters are lifted straight from real life, and a lot of the events too.