Colleen
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Tana French:
I have read all of your books and just finished The Secret Place. I loved it; as an educator pf adolescents and young adults, I compliment you on how well you captured their lives and minds. Please refresh my memory on Holly and Stephen; how did they encounter each other in a previous novel?
Tana French
Thank you so much! I'm too old to have teenage friends and too young to have friends with teenage kids, so I was worried about getting that right - I'm delighted it hit the mark for you.
Holly and Stephen met in Faithful Place, my third book - she was a witness not to murder itself but to some evidence about it, and at the end of the book it's made clear that Stephen is the detective she'll be talking to.
Holly and Stephen met in Faithful Place, my third book - she was a witness not to murder itself but to some evidence about it, and at the end of the book it's made clear that Stephen is the detective she'll be talking to.
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Tana French:
Secret Place:The endings were (although I love this book and only felt a little let down by this aspect!!!) so obvious to me from early on that I want to ask you: Was the whodunit-aspect not important to you in this book? and You took some risk by making the supernatural elements (light bulbs, hot and flying objects) sound real, literal. Why did this step seem necessary?
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