Thank you for your polite replies. Sadly it seems some of the facebook pages , have gone a little "Mad" with influxes and some often downright rude replies, so I am deliberately taken a step back for some time. It's great to be on a civil minded platform.
On a total obscure idea, did anyone actually put The young man who went missing after reading silver elves, he really did look like a younger MH. (I ordered the silver elves book and gained nothing but a slightly lighter purse!)
I'm hoping we might know this side of christmas, poor chap.