My retirement from the rat race enabled me to take up my first love of writing, particularly historical fiction of the twentieth century. I try to combine historical events into an enthralling story so that a reader learns how ordinary people were affected by the hardships that wars and social problems brought. My inspiration for ‘A Sixth Sense’ started with a non-fiction book called ‘Dublin Tenement Life’ which was a series of interviews with people who had lived in these awful slums. I got thinking how I would escape from this environment and how would that life affect me.