Just finished reading this page-turner by Armidale writer, Rebecca James, who I saw last week at the SWF. This book has it all – youth, innocence, guilt, love, betrayal, death, romance, relationships, lust, likeable characters, more betrayal…you get the picture. Rebecca has shown what it means to get your characters in trouble and keep them there. A great lesson for writers in plotting, structure and upping the stakes. And what makes you want to keep reading!
I put it down to work on my own writing and to read Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil (clever and haunting) for my bookclub. I look foward o a chance to finsih it this week.