Writing ‘The Candlemaker’ was nothing like anything I had ever written before. I felt led to write a story that could endure, that could be remembered, if not word for word then in memory and nostalgia, something that when a child is all grown up and thumbing through the mental images of their childhood, the imagery of ‘The Candlemaker’ will be one of fondness and inspiration. The first draft of ‘The Candlemaker’ was written in 2023 and while the theme and morals of the story