Jal asked P.J. MacNamara:

There are 20 items in your first book and I understand there will be five books eventually, so it is reasonable to suppose there will be perhaps around 100 separate items in the series in total, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, covering a period of over 30 years. Do you have any special favourites out of all those? If so, which, and why.

P.J. MacNamara You are quite right, there will be around 100 pieces in the Legacy Series in total, and I do have some particular favourites. I have been very careful not to put all my best eggs in the first basket because I didn't want the subsequent books in the series to disappoint anybody who enjoyed the first one. Some of my very best stuff is as yet unpublished.

Everyone will have their own particular favourites. That's only to be expected because we're all different and we all appreciate and resonate with different things. As the author it's slightly different for me, because I remember the circumstances surrounding each piece's conception and I remember how each piece changed in the pre-publication stages. My single greatest achievement ever as a writer, I think, is a piece called "As Easy As ABC", which is scheduled to appear in Book Three, and I'm also extremely proud of Book Two's "Love Will Keep Us Together", but chances are that neither of those will make the top ten in many people's lists. It's all about opinions. Some people will doubtless prefer pieces I slipped in almost as afterthoughts, such as "Fringe Theatre" in Book Four. Every book in this series contains several pieces I'm immensely proud of. My favourite from MAN STRUGGLING WITH UMBRELLA is "In The Heat Of The Morning".

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