[stylist] background from Helene

[Judith Bron]

Helene, Your background information about your characters and relationships as you told them to us is fine, but most readers aren't going to sit down to a new book and read chapters about background information about them.  Your book is a novel.  The characters, their roles and relationships should be obvious to your readers without a manual to guide them through the book.  Hope this is helpful, Judith