‘You sound different today, Mum.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Using expressions, you don’t usually use!’
‘You I smile as my daughter grabs her bag off the kitchen table where I’m sat with my iPad. ‘Have a most marvellous day, darling,’ I shout as she’s half way out of the door.
‘See what I mean, Mum!’
I have a chuckle as I reinsert my AirPods and listen to my recorded interviews with the delightful Doris Dewhurst, my eighty-nine years young client with whom I have enjoyed my ten hours of interviews in the comfort of her bungalow. Her knitted blankets and cross-stitched cushions cosseted me as Doris strained my tea and insisted that I try some of her homemade shortbread. It was a truly marvellous experience and, yes, I’m rather fond, at present, of Doris’s favourite word – marvellous.
I am a ghostwriter and I capture the personality and patterns of speech of the customers I am ghosting. None of this is a conscious intention. It just happens as I happily haunt them,
