This Christmas for Radio 3, five leading writers have picked a novel they love, and have written an original piece of fiction imagining what happened to the characters after the story ends. In the first essay of the series, the crime writer Ian Rankin picks William Golding's The Lord of the Flies. Like many students, Ian first encountered the novel at school but certain scenes and moments have stayed with him for the past forty years. In this essay, Ian explores his relationship with the work as a teenager of the 1970s and imagines what might have happened to two of the shipwrecked boys, Ralph and Jack, once they reach adulthood. Producer: Camellia Sinclair