Callum Neil answers “Thoughts on the ending?”

Frances asked this question about Verity:

Thoughts on the ending?

Callum Neil I think the manuscript is true. There is a few things that have pointed me in this direction I can explain.
If she was writing this Manuscript to help…moreI think the manuscript is true. There is a few things that have pointed me in this direction I can explain.
If she was writing this Manuscript to help her writers block or creativity, why would she write in the editors note that's she is going to bare all her ugliness and gives the reader a generous warning. Why not write just before that for the fictional purposes of this book "if you read this please be aware that this is a writers exercise and is not true and I would never hurt my children etc".
If you type a doc and print it what are the chances of someone finding it?? First Chapter entitled 'find what you love and let it kill you' surely points to the fact she's aware of her outrageous thoughts and knows that her life will come crashing down before it even happens.
Also the fact that in the manuscript she does detail a lot of her and Jermery's sex life and not a lot about her children, she also only writes about Chastin, why would you do that if you were using this method of writing to journal, why is she not journaling about Harper too? And mainly focusing on her and Jeremy, a mind set of a psychopath.
Why did she have a knife and why/how did Crew have it and able to cut himself. And then he very fiercely defends and protect his mother, Stockholm syndrome. He also cut him gums, could he have traits he's learned from his mother.
Verity pretending for so long and only writing the letter after she realises her family home is beginning to be torn apart shows that she's lying also. A normal person would show some sort of progression if all she wrote was true, to slow she's on the mend and there might be hope for her.
Her letter seems to long and far fetched, over explaining and its as if she's trying to explain to everyone (police, media etc) and not just her husband.
Her mother and father thought she was evil also, she seems like someone who has been exposed to horrific ordeals or thoughts hence the genre of her books and manuscript. She is someone who can manipulate and has an extensive imagination to do so.
Jermery also said she felt like he didn't fully know her, he must of found it hard to understand her. If she was so innocent I'm sure he would have never questioned anything.

This book got me!! loved it. (less)

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