So NEVER TELL is being unleashed on an unsuspecting public…the first person to spot one in a shop wins a Creme Egg. Actually I’ve already been sent a mobile picture from London’s Euston station, so the Creme Egg’s ear-marked for my good mate Steph. Yesterday I did a radio interview on Talk Radio Europe on Hannah Murray’s book show, where we discussed secret societies being rather like cults. I think, if you’re very clever, (cleverer than me, which isn’t hard), you can listen again to it here . I should probably draw a veil over the moment when I said ‘I hope that people want to keep turning the pages’. ‘Yes, well’ said Hannah, kindly, ‘isn’t that the point of books?’.
A few other links I’d forgotten to download (OK, actually, that I’ve been too stupid to download. I’m doing my best with this computer lark)…In USA – is Page 69 representative of the rest of your book – the Page 69 test for the just-published LULLABY – click here.
And if you’re interested in SECRET SOCIETIES IN LITERATURE, Enid Blyton’s Secret 7, Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History amongst others, have a look here at the article I wrote for BookArmy. And the nice people at Book Army are running a competition to win a copy of NEVER TELL so you could even enter that if you fancied.
Now I must get on with the pressing business of finding something to wear to the NEVER TELL launch writing my next book.
And if you do lay your hands on a copy of NEVER TELL, I’d love to know what you think. As long as you like it, obviously.
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Hi Claire
So I’m the first on here to say how much I loved your book!
I’ve just finished reading it – started yesterday morning and haven’t been able to put it down! What a complicated story! Loved the Oxford part – all those feelings of not belonging – and loved the children, too – they were so funny. Not sure about her choice of men – talk about not recognising someone who’s bad for you! I loved the feelings she had after her brief affair, too – it described very well the way you can still yearn for someone so long after you’ve been forgotten.
The only criticism I have (sorry!) is that I couldn’t see why she was such a good journalist, since she doesn’t seem to do any writing! I thought it was a bit unlikely that Xavier would keep nagging her to work for him, when there would be so many other candidates around – he knew she wouldn’t be able to put everything into the work now, the way she had in the past.
Anyway, that’s a small gripe. Most of all I thought it was very cinematic – your descriptions are fantastic and it was so easy to visualise every scene and every character.
I’m off to buy the others, now!
Mary
April 24, 2010 @ 2:34 pm
Dear Mary
How nice to hear from you and hmm, let me defend my poor heroine quickly (and myself of course!). I think Rose was writing during all the bits she wasn’t running round after baddies or men! I’m very glad you enjoyed it though; thank you for taking the time to let me know – it really does make it all worthwhile, knowing someone out there is reading!
April 30, 2010 @ 5:43 pm