Novelist whose life has been stranger than fiction
One day in the early 1980s, Ann Evan's artist husband Alan drew a picture of a girl with swept-back hair and large, sad eyes. "I asked him who she was, and he said he didn't know - he'd been scribbling and it just came out of his head." Ann loved the picture, so framed it and hung it on the wall on the landing of their home on the Cheshire/Welsh border near Wrexham. And then something strange happened. "I woke in the night and thought I could hear one of my two daughters - who were then aged 12 and 14 - crying. I went into their rooms, but they were both fast asleep. The same thing happened the following night. On the third night, one of my daughters came in to me and said she thought she'd heard me crying!" The next day, Ann was wiping over the picture and noticed wetness on the inside of the frame. "It was probably condensation, but it really looked as if the girl in the picture had been crying. After what had happened the previous nights, i
