Clara answers “Thoughts on the ending?”

Frances asked this question about Verity:

Thoughts on the ending?

Clara Lowen is the villain of the book...

let me finish properly. She states at the very beginning that many people can not differentiate between the author …moreLowen is the villain of the book...

let me finish properly. She states at the very beginning that many people can not differentiate between the author and their book characters, which made her editor fall in love with her, while reading her first novel. But she states that she couldn't be more different than the protagonist of her first novel. My guess is that is quite the same with Verity. Lowen writes loveable characters and isn't quite loveable herself and Verity writes terrible characters that have nothing to do with herself.

I would even go so far that Lowen is no reliable narrator. She has absolutely no people skills because she isolates herself her entire life, her own mother ist terrified of her even when she was just a little girl and has little other friends.

Another point adding to this is that Jeremy is absolutely in Love with Verity after he reads her first novel script, which is not a thriller and was written about him. He hasn't read the other book series of his wife because he cannot differentiate the ideas from her. He then confesses to Lowen that not Verity but himself is a big fan of her work and wanted to get to know the author. Like her editor Jeremy falls in Love with the idea of the author after reading Lowens first book.

Lowen also becomes obsessed with Jeremy quite like the Verity in the manuscript. She gets pregnant (on purpose) and eats the pieces of the letter with Jeremies name on it.

My take is that the manuscript is not the truth but that Lowen falls in love with the manuscript version of Jeremy and Jeremy with the novel version of Lowen. They both have psychotic tendencies and are highly traumatized because of the deaths they witnessed in the past and the one in the beginning of the book.

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