Confessions of an Author

# A Case of Need by Michael Crichton - very interesting. The novel is very pro-abortion, which I found difficult, but it's usually good to read viewpoints that differ to your own, because it helps you understand what others are thinking. Whilst I found Crichton's very biased approach slightly annoying (he didn't address the alternative views at all, other than to ridicule the extremist stance) the story was interesting enough for me to want to read to the end. # The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough - well, this was surprising! I sort of remember the story from the 1970's, when my parents banned us from watching it, and my sister and I used to sneak episodes when they were out! But I have never read it. McCullough writes in a very descriptive style, and she uses all the adverbs that Stephen King advises writers to avoid, but she certainly writes a good story. I was uneasy with the ages of the main characters - as a priest in his twenties becomes besotted with a girl...

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough Book Review (No spoilers!) Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough I met Sarah Pinborough at a luncheon. We were both invited to talk about our books, and afterwards I received a copy of her latest – at the time unpublished – book. To be honest, I had never heard of Sarah Pinborough before. If you research her on Wikipedia, you’ll find she writes both Young Adult and Adult thrillers, and has published 20 books. She also writes for television, and has had her work adapted for films. So quite well known. Not sure how I had managed to miss her. Anyway, I loved her book. I was also given one of her YA books (13 Minutes) and that never appealed – but then I was a young adult a very long time ago. However, ‘Behind Her Eyes’ was brilliant. If you enjoy books with a lot of suspense, where things happen that you think you ‘almost understand’, then find at the end that everything you thought you knew was wrong, this is a book for you. There was als...