Absolutely, as I remember it, we [Susie and Andrew Davies] were both kind of on the same page about not wanting to have a narrator, because it would be easy to do it, given the kind of book it is, but just a feeling that it just distances you from the story. Really, we wanted the actual way we were telling it to do that for us.

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