“Destiny’s Child” has been writing itself in my head for several years.

What the Muse provided is not what I had first dreamed.

Extracts were submitted in March 2016 for peer group review to friends in the Creative Writing class at the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Strathclyde University.

Arising from this process I re-structured the opening chapter to make it more accessible, I hope.

Thank you, each and all.

Thanks also to our tutor David Pettigrew for his excellent suggestions.

And yet again, a million thanks to my friend Kareth Paterson for her edits.

“Death to CONJUNCTIONS!”